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Microinjection of preimplantation mouse embryos

Posted by , on 28 January 2013

Hello, my name is Stephanie and I’m a graduate student in Dr. Amy Ralston’s lab at the University of California Santa Cruz.  I just returned from a trip to Dr. ...

Overly Honest Methods

Posted by , on 8 January 2013

Why did you incubate that sample for 16 hours? Because you wanted to go home for the day – but that much detail is not in your paper! Last night, ...

Behind the Paper: Support beyond Countries

Posted by , on 23 September 2012

When Dr. Eva Amsen, Community Manager for the Node and Online Editor for Development, recommended me to write this post in connection with our recent publication about mechanisms of pectoral ...

Homeward bound

Posted by , on 10 May 2012

It’s been longer than I’d hoped since I last wrote, but a whole heck of a lot has been going on. Monday last week, the professor in charge of international ...

And of course there's a hedgehog...in the car

Posted by , on 28 April 2012

We have been getting pretty good videos for the past few days, but it seems the animals have realized we aren’t actually predators and have gone on strike. After the ...

Of course there are chickens...

Posted by , on 27 April 2012

We just got back from the desert about a half hour ago, at 2:30 am, after a pretty successful evening. We also went earlier in the day to build a ...

Baby camels!

Posted by , on 25 April 2012

Now the real adventures begin. We arrived at the field station on Sunday and met with The Fixer on Monday afternoon to discuss arranging a driver for the next week ...

A horse is a horse of course of course...

Posted by , on 24 April 2012

Unless it’s a Przewalski’s horse! Oh where to even start! The embryo collections came to completion on Wednesday, and now we are on to Phase II. We returned to Urumqi ...

Hazards of Field Work

Posted by , on 16 April 2012

Let’s start off this list with Pee. In. My. Face. The Chinese collector folks brought a big cage with a *ridiculous* number of 5-toed jerboas this morning. They are apparently ...

The perils of language

Posted by , on 15 April 2012

Anyone who has known me for awhile probably knows that I really really despise carrots. Yes, I know. I am a freak. No one hates carrots. In my whole life ...

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