The whole world is in the midst of the COVID-19 chaos! I think that “social distancing” should not be a very painful pill to swallow for us. Most of the time, doing research is a “solitaire”. One of the unexpected benefits of “social distancing” is it leaves a surprisingly cleaner daily calendar. Without many out-of-control
Building a successful career in biomedical research has become increasingly challenging. Becoming a successful scientist in this current highly competitive biomedical field is almost a “miracle” in some ways – it is a magical blend of personality traits, some productive mentor/trainee relationships, and some good luck! What are the essential personality traits? For the trainee,
Science is one of the most fascinating things you can learn in this world! Being part of the discovery process is tremendously rewarding (at the last…. keep reading!). In contrast to the “scientific news”, the media generally has less interest in the daily life of a scientist. Under the excitement of cool scientific discoveries, from
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
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
