by Captain Skellett | Dec 3, 2010 | How Things Work, Recent Research, Science Communication, Sex and Reproduction
I’m a guest blogger for the RiAus, and this post also appeared on their fancy website. To tell the truth, I really wanted to call this post “Hormonally Yours” in homage to the Shakespeare Sisters (anyone?) but I’ll save it for another post. Recently I was...
by Captain Skellett | Oct 18, 2010 | Drugs, How Things Work, Recent Research, Science Communication
While waiting for inspiration to strike a solid introduction into my head, my computer screen went blank. Good ol’ MacBook conserving energy! But letting your computer go idle doesn’t mean you have to waste its processing power. Why not cure cancer with...
by Captain Skellett | Feb 18, 2010 | Recent Research
As a pirate I am rarely afforded the luxury of meeting the rich and famous, but today I met Elizabeth Blackburn. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, making her the first first FEMALE Australian born scientist to win a Nobel Prize. (I also...
by Captain Skellett | Jan 12, 2010 | Science Communication, Unethics
When we work with cell lines in the lab, we often work with HeLa cells. They can live in a vial of nutrients, and from a small sample you can grow a large quantity to use in cancer research, in vitro fertilisation research, stem cell research, virus research, pretty...
by Captain Skellett | Jan 2, 2010 | How Things Work, Sex and Reproduction
Following on from yesterday’s post about the Tasmanian Devils, this is all about HPV – a highly infectious virus that can cause cancer (well, sort of. Read on.) The Human Papillomavirus is crazy infectious – around three out of four women will have...