In the business world, you will hear people often look for talents who are so-called “T-shaped”. They have an uncanny ability to work outside the core area while maintaining the depth of expertise in a given area. Who doesn’t want such talent in science? Counterintuitively, in science training, we are almost afraid of talking of
Aristotle is generally considered as the “first scientist” because of his inductive method which is started from collecting empirical evidence; then drawing generalized conclusions. Sounds familiar? As an influential pioneer of the method of scientific discovery, Aristotle’s way of thinking profoundly shaped how to do research and how we report our scientific observations/discoveries. Open any issue
… afterthoughts of the Keystone Single Cell Biology Symposium. Why do we need to study biology at a single cell resolution? Besides the technological appeal (and generating big seemingly unprocessable data), we have to ask ourselves, why on earth do we need to study biology at the single cell level? As technology evolves, we need
We have had a wonderful lab party just before the Christmas break! As a tradition, we have Piñatas 🙂 Such a fun experience! We enjoyed so much of the random wiggling Piñata, the blindfolded clumsiness, the “strategic brutal force”, and, the best of all, the bursting the candy-filled Piñata! At the moment, I started to
Is research journey a serendipitous mars rover path or an evolving process with its rules and principles? Think slowly on this question and hold on your answers … Just a little history here. When I had an idea of setting up a lab website back to 2012, I just knew I don’t want a domain
From time to time, humans want some thing new. Is it a human nature or just a rule of the universe? It is a cycle of changes, moving aways from the old and embracing the new.
