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Plants and Pipettes
Join us in exploring the fantastic world of molecular plant biology! We dive deep into the cells of all green things and together we discover the mechanisms behind photosynthesis, flower development and much more!
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Cross both ways before you look!
Today, in this CROSSOVER with Vivian from Instagram’s @Fat_plants_only, we’re talking about literal crossing. More specifically, we’re diving into the molecular and genetic factors that pl…
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The forgotten organelle
Think of a plant organelle. You probably picked the chloroplast, the guy that’s specific to plants. Or maybe the giant vacuole. If you‘re weird, you picked the tiny mitochondria*. Chances are, howe…
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Babyccino*, with Arabidopsis milk?
Plants have long been used as an important source of oil- sunflower, olive, canola and even pumpkin seed. And, more recently, they’ve also been used to make nilk**: soy, oat, almond and cashew. T…
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What it takes to be a mitochondrion
You all know the mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cells.. but what exactly is required to get that power going? Mitos were first seen as organelles way back in the 1800s, and known to be t…
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Drawing Plants and Pipettes
I’m not an artist. I’m a fairly conventionally trained molecular biologist and I spent way more time assembling acrylamide gels than on the drawing board. Still, I draw most of the images here on the…
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Global climate strike 2019
You might have noticed it on the news, or maybe you even joined – this year there was a Global Climate Strike on September 20th. We joined our local demonstration in Berlin The climate crisi…