“this exciting but somewhat risky project.” -futureBen’s committee
Kim Stanley Robinson presents some of the most realistic projections of the future I have ever read. The Mars trilogy is an opus depicting the colision of science, politics and humankind’s final frontier. When reading these books it is important to remember that these are the stories of real people. There are a number of moments which are less than epic sometimes they are just trying to get a job for a few chapters.
Whats going on this week? Right now I’m trying to create a menu of expression vectors containing an epitope tag with an IRES eGFP. What this means is that whatever gene I express using one of these vectors will have a special tag on one end or the other plus eGFP will show up wherever the gene does.
This is great for detection purposes because not only do the cells expressing my gene of interest fluoresce green, but I can probe for my tags as well. I wish they just sold these things online. I’ll post maps of these constructs, and if anybody wants to save themselves weeks worth of molecular biology, just send me a self addressed stamped envelope and I will send you an aliquat of any of my DNA. Oh. Good idea. I am going to start a construct gallery this weekend.
Always in the sciences we must be impartial, detached and firmly rooted in the present. This is a very important attitude to maintain professionally. But what makes so many people interested in science is the same empassioned forward thinking thinking which every good scientist must surpress. In this personal web site I will explore topics that inspire forward thinking in the life sciences. These things can be interesting new technology or works of fiction. It is inspiration we care about.
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