Waiting for the cells to grow
An occasional blog featuring the idle thoughts of a scientist running a research lab in a medical school.
Blog articles (new series: the most recent article is at the top)
- Gwyneth builds a semi-automatic RIFLE
- Huseyin finds a new target in the battle against renal cystic disease
- Committee, commitment, committed
- Anatomists studying Saturn
- Lecture Mondegreens
- Watching kidneys getting nervous
- Ian's pipe dreams coming true
- Feverish writing
- Science fiction
- A near miss
- Decolonizing science
- Imposter syndrome
- A time capsule
- Pharm-ecology
- You know you are getting old when...
- Julia's eggsperiments.
- Science is hard enough without this!
- Private eyes and public suffering.
- Ouch!
- The price of ignorance.
- Reading up.
- Word perfect.
- The Beadle and the Paranymphs.
- Making a connection.
- Blue remembered hills.
- Burning books
- The end of an era.
- The unfamiliarity of a familiar place.
- From ES cells to urothelium.
- Worn keys.
- Science in the sun.
- Map-making in a hurry.
- A small contribution to the fight against COVID-19.
- Credit where credit's due.
- The stage or the screen?
- Who ordered that?
- Optimistic about pessimism (and vice versa)
- Insignificant significance, and new (academic) year's resolutions.
- Waites and Measures (2).
- The power of architecture, and the architecture of power.
- Ask a silly question...
- The skills of immigrant plumbers.
- Don't quote me.
- Night School.
- Scooped!
- A joke no more.
- A new tool from Ireland.
- Disturbing reading.
- Waites and measures.
- D'Arcy and the philosophers.
- The contract.
- Board in the office.
- A storm in a D cup.
- Freedom to fail.
- Reality Check
- Chris takes the you-know-what.
- Another ugly fact.
- Elise's holey relic.
- The student voice, going right over our heads.
- Keeping it real.
- The charity shop 2: a partial answer.
- Bloody cyclists
- Prof code
- An ugly fact
- Cliches made real - for everybody
- Piping for beginners
- Mene, Mene, Tekel... (Part 2)
- Megan, the ghost hunter
- A more educated guess
- And today we have Naming Of Parts
- Tea and cakes in the cell culture lab
- The charity shop
- The hole
- Rising without trace
- Flexible working works
- 568ml of science
- Painting by numbers
- Automatic writing
- Teaching on the other side
- Where have all the mad scientists gone?
- Please call me Jamie
- Look Ma - no giants!
- Portland Place
- Listening for the echo
- Transports of delight
- Genius shows most clearly from behind
- Retraction then publication
- The creative power of self-loathing
- The giftie
- Strange perspectives
- Gifted teachers
- Second childhood
- Six drugs, Rac and Rho
- Teaching in the Tyrol
- Mene, Mene, Tekel...
- Wie der Nase des Mannes...
Contact: jamie.davies@ed.ac.uk
lab web page http://golgi.ana.ed.ac.uk/Davieslab/