Peter Higgs, a Physicist……
Peter Hics, a Fizz-icist
All The Best for 2015!!
et Al.
Have Yourself a ‘Double Helix Christmas’….and may all your Nucleosomes be bright
All together now….
On the first day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- A knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the second day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the third day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the fourth day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the fifth day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the sixth day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 6 impact points, 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the seventh day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 7 tips-a-racking, 6 impact points, 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the eighth day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 8 channels pipetting, 7 tips-a-racking, 6 impact points, 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the ninth day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 9 reps-a-ringing, 8 channels pipetting, 7 tips-a-racking, 6 impact points, 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the tenth day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 10 degrees of freedom, 9 reps-a-ringing, 8 channels pipetting, 7 tips-a-racking, 6 impact points, 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the eleventh day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 11 mutant screens, 10 degrees of freedom, 9 reps-a-ringing, 8 channels pipetting, 7 tips-a-racking, 6 impact points, 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
On the twelfth day of Christmas my lab love gave to me:
- 12 missing data, 11 mutant screens, 10 degrees of freedom, 9 reps-a-ringing, 8 channels pipetting, 7 tips-a-racking, 6 impact points, 5 Hy-poth-e-ses, 4 re-submissions, 3 standard errors, 2 peer reviews, and a knock-back from the E-di-tor
Merry Christmas everyone!!
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Why, it’s….Duran….Duran !
Greetings Pop Pickers!! Welcome to ‘Pick of the Sci-Pops’…. your favourite Rock & Pop groups and songs re-imagined as Humungous Hits direct from the Lab bench
Off we go then peeps…..hold on to your tips…because just ejected into the Top 20 are – at 20,
Gladys Knight and the (filter) Tips….
At 19…..are you ‘In Too Deep’, or wandering in a ‘Land of [scientific] Confusion’ – yes! It’s (muta)Genesis
New entry at 18 ….it’s Sir Paul McCartney with his ‘Wings’ pals…lab coats on…running a gel…
……‘Band on the Run’…..(150V for 45 mins should do it!)
Band(s) on the Run
Up two places at 17 – the ‘Pocket Pipette of the Prep room’….Yes! it’s Prince and he’s grinding and mincing up the lab with
‘Little Red Cuvette’
Little Red Corvette?…No ! round these parts it’s a ‘Little Red Cuvette’
Is your life the pursuit of the perfect Western blot?….. then surely you’re a fan of West(ern) Life….Southern blots giving you the jips? The Beautiful South(ern) should be on your lips…Racing Nicely Alongside these two are the The Verve with ‘A Northern (blot) Soul’….that’s us up to 16 on your Pick of the Sci-Pops, folks!
Staying put at numbers 15 and 14 …..we have two classics
At 15, ‘All Shook Up’ (37oC for 30 mins)….from Elvis and here’s another hero of mine – at 14…yes, it’s Bowie! with ‘Gene Gene-y’
Stay with me Pop Pickers…..straight in at number 13 ….it’s not a re-mix, it’s a ‘Mullis Master Mix’….it’s
‘(Polymerase) Chain Reaction’ from DiaNA Ross
…”it really, really could happen…yes, it really, really could happen” (…manuscript accepted for publication) – staying put at number at 12 it’s Blur! with
‘The Universal’
Your eyes don’t deceive you – this really is happening – The Universal
Let’s see if you can ‘digest’ this peeps – at 11 it’s ‘Bam(HI) rap!’ from Wham…
Echo and The Bunnymen??? NO!!! it’s EcoRI and The Bunnymen with their moody classic ‘The Cutter’ – that’s zoomed up the chart to number 10 – I mean lets be ‘blunt’ those last two are bound to ‘sticky overhang’ for a while…
Ok folks, next a Top Science fact …little did you know that Roy Orbison was partial to running SDS-PAGE gels….yup, this inspired this all time classic ……and positively charging into the charts at number 9, it’s ‘Only the Laemmli’
Number 8…..Salsa, merengue…. ‘The Lambada’??? No – in the lab we do ‘The Lambda’…don’t worry – its just a ‘phage’ we’re going through….
This weeks ‘significant’ new entry (p<0.05)…at 7 it’s The Average (+/-S.E.M.) White Band closely followed at number 6 with The Three Degrees (of freedom)
Next – at 5 – a band who came in third in the 2010 X-Factor….sorry Sigma-Factor competition….yes, young ‘uns, it’s (PLoS) One Direction!!!
And on the subject of the next generation… a non-mover at number 4, it’s a 70’s band updated for the –omics generation…..yup…it’s The New (RNA-) seq-ers….
Into the this weeks Top 3…drum roll….drum roll…
At 3…McFly…..Busted……McBusted? What happens when you cross 80’s synth pop cell biologists Soft Cell with 70’s post-punk heavyweights Joy Division… …yup Pickers…. it’s Soft Cell (Division)
Staying in the 80’s, and flying the flag for Moshing Microbiologists – at Number 2 it’s The Cult(ure)…or for synth-biologists – it’s 80’s synth-poppers Culture Club
That us reached the tip of the rack pickers…who has earned the Platinum Taq?….at number one….The album covers were printed wrongly…..they’re big lovers of lab glassware…..yes Pop Pickers….its Duran Duran!! With their classic album ‘Bio’
That’s it folks, hope you’ve enjoyed this weeks run-down of all you favourite science inspired Rock ‘n Pop classics….just who will make an ‘impact’ on the charts next time around?!
20 Gladys Knight and the (filter) Tips
19 (muta)Genesis
18 ‘Band on the Run’ Wings
17 ‘Little Red Cuvette’ Prince
16 West(ern) Life…The Beautiful South(ern)…‘A Northern (blot) Soul’ The Verve
15 ‘All Shook Up’ (37oC for 30 mins) Elvis Presley
14 ‘Gene Gene-y’ David Bowie
13 ‘(Polymerase) Chain Reaction’ DiaNA Ross
12 ‘The Universal’ Blur
11 ‘Bam(HI) rap!’ Wham
10 ‘The Cutter’ EcoRI and The Bunnymen
9 ‘Only the Laemmli’ Roy Orbison
8 The Lambda (Phage mix)
7 The Average (+/-S.E.M.) White Band
6 The Three Degrees (of freedom)
5 (PLoS) One Direction
4 The New (RNA-)seq-ers
3 Soft Cell (Division)
2 The Cult(ure)….and Culture Club
1 ‘Bio’ Duran Duran
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