Welcome to my series documenting my trials and tribulations as I foray into academia.  I’ve recently been put in charge of a college-level course in developmental biology.  I do have a colleague

Welcome to my series documenting my trials and tribulations as I foray into academia.  I’ve recently been put in charge of a college-level course in developmental biology.  I do have a colleague

Welcome to my series documenting my trials and tribulations as I foray into academia.  I’ve recently been put in charge of creating and managing a series of labs for a college-level course in

Welcome to my new series documenting my trials and tribulations as I foray into academia.  I’ve recently been put in charge of creating and managing a series of labs for a college-level course in

Well my science career has taken an interesting turn as of late and I thought I'd turn to SteemSTEM for some suggestions. A few months ago I was at a party with a few professors from a local college. They

To celebrate SteemSTEM’s launch of I’ve been writing a series of posts on the recently announced 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This year’s prize was awarded to Frances H. Arnold for pioneering the first

Twins will start out with identical genetics in the womb. In other words, their DNA will be the same. Random mutation could lead to minute genetic differences between twins, but this is unlikely to have

The short answer is that each sperm and egg only contains half of the genetic material of the parent. The distribution of genetic material to sperm/egg is mostly random so each sperm and egg have a unique

Accidental dupe, my bad

I would say with 99% certainty that Bacillus F doesn't have any anti-aging effect on animals whatsoever. I kind of understand why some pop science paper might get excited about it though. Bacillus species

To celebrate SteemSTEM’s launch of their new website ( I’m writing a series of posts on the recently announced 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This year’s prize was awarded to Frances H. Arnold for pioneering

Big news for @SteemSTEM this month as their new website ( just launched. This could be the start of turning this community into major platform of scientific communication and I couldn’t be more excited.

My posting schedule has been sporadic of late because work has gotten in the way. However, the big developments going on in the SteemSTEM community have finally spurred me to start contributing more regularly.

I usually don't put up lifestyle posts, but this one is actually relevant to Steemit in some way so here it goes. About a month ago, @ruth-girl made an excellent post on the Eternal Flame Falls. It's a

Adapted from 1 Brewing beer is weird once you think about it. You feed yeast a bunch grains to make ethanol (a poison that makes us feel good), then throw in hops and anything else you can think of to

Though I love the Steemit platform, one gripe I have with it is that good articles get buried just as fast as bad ones. @SteemSTEM has done some amazing efforts in getting quality science posts recognized,

One of the most underappreciated aspects of biochemistry is the incredible variety of molecular tools we have available. For example, if I was working with DNA in lab, I could replicate it with a polymerase,

(1) One of my favorite topics to cover on Steemit are new high-tech devices that can revolutionize the scientific community. However, many of these devices won’t have an immediate impact on most people

This is it! The final beer! As I've said before, this is the perfect time for a beer challenge. I just moved to Upstate New York and there are a ton of new breweries to try. I know a lot of people scoff

Wow, I'm almost done with this challenge. On to the penultimate beer: As I've said before, this is the perfect time for a beer challenge as I just moved to Upstate New York and there are a ton of new breweries