Teaching Ants How to Pipette
Pipetting takes approximately 1027.66 hours/year-person (unpublished) in an average biology lab, and a way to automate that process would save the United States approximately $1.2 billion per year.
COVID Chronicles: Kitchen Fail
Grad student who successfully does 14-page genomic library sequencing protocol is unable to follow 3 ingredient, one-pot recipe.
Excerpt from The Art of Amateur Sadness
Match McGregory’s “Excerpt from the Art of Amateur Sadness” debuts an unwritten anti- self-help book that lists the ways to...
Is This a Graduate Student?
I have made a terrible mistake. I’m writing this to you, the readers of UCSF Synapse, to warn you against...
Graduate Student Achieves Enlightenment After Paper Scoop
Her palms were sweaty, knees weak, arms were heavy; was that vomit on her sweater already? Mom’s spaghetti? The first...
Recipe for A PhD Student Thesis
Serves: 1 Thesis Committee Time: 4-7 years Just when you thought you had exhausted the quarantine home cookbook, here is...
Congratulations Uncle COVID Denier
In a long-anticipated move, the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences has been awarded to Your Uncle on Facebook for...
The art of holding up objects — not all objects are equal
Countless studies have shown that holding up your experiments toward the light makes you seem ten times smarter than you...
COVID Lock Down Inspires New Thesis
2020 has been a year of great turmoil due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With labs operating only at 50% capacity...
Ghost in the Machine
Despite the fact that scientists should be impartial toward all experiments and data, the vast number of unknowns in a...