“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles”, said the Chinese warrior Sun Tzu. As our enemies in a battle, viruses can differ a lot, each of them with their own weapons to cause diseases, and strategies to spread in the population. Knowing the characteristicsContinue reading “How we work with viruses in the lab”
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From the experiments to the publication: story of a manuscript
In one of my previous posts, I wrote about what being a scientist looks like, and I said that the final product of a researcher work is the publication of a paper. But how long is the path to publication? We said that a new hypothesis based on the current knowledge on a topic isContinue reading “From the experiments to the publication: story of a manuscript”
A scientist’s life
When we are introduced to someone new, one of the first questions we ask is “What’s your job”? When I answer “I am a researcher”, behind the smiling face that usually replies “Cool!”, a big question mark about what a researcher actually does is hiding. Well, I’m here to answer this question. Usually, people imagineContinue reading “A scientist’s life”
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