If You Cannot Grow it, Clone it! Hepatitis C Update

"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it".

If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Manage It

Start of the lab: 2006 Size of the lab: Currently ten—size has fluctuated between five and 20 Research field: Systems and synthetic biology In 2005, I was working in the bioinformatics group of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, a subsidiary of DuPont. The company was downsizing its research and development effort. At the same time, synthetic biology was emerging as a new discipline, and I wanted t...

If you like it , does it matter if it ' s real ?

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If you don't use it you'll likely lose it.

This article is a commentary on the recently published manuscript by Drey et al. (2014). The age-related loss of motor units (MU) is an immutable process and understanding the possible role of physical activity in maintaining functional MUs is an important topic. Dysfunctional remodelling of a MU is associated with denervation of the muscle and ultimate death of the spinal motoneurone. Converse...

If You Didn't Test It, It Doesn't Work

Engineers fundamentally believe that it's possible to "get it right", to create something new that always accomplishes its mission and never disappoints. Validators know that, if that is possible, it's exceedingly unlikely, because they've never seen it. Validators learn that if humans are involved, then human error is present. (And sometimes tool errors, manufacturing errors, user errors, and ...