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There are billions of sperms but only one sperm is allowed to fertilize egg.

Who say biologists are nerd and bore? We too can produce “LOL” and “ahem…” type of “professional jokes”, from molecular biologists to molecular biologists, and only molecular biologists can catch it. Sit back and have fun~

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“I’ve been single-stranded too long! Lonely ATGCATG would like to pair up with congenial TACGTAC.”

“Menage a trois! Ligand seeks two receptors into binding and mutual phosphorylation. Let’s get together and transduce some signals.”

“Some dates have called me a promotor. Others have referred to me as a real operator. Personally, I think I’m just a cute piece of DNA who is still looking for that special transcription factor to help me unwind.”

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Antimicrobial Socks

Dilbert tried to impress the ladies with his antimicrobial socks!

Evolgen created this “Seminar Answer Flow Chart” based on Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart, which I found it pretty funny and useful.  The flow chart does not only apply on your seminar question session, but also the undergraduate’s presentation.

Imagine if all bankers are engineers…

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Stumbled this animation graphic.  I was really amazed by the amount of cosmetic products they use.

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What if scientists are treated like celebrities and their private lives are obsessed by general public?

I will definitely read the entertainment sections for such news and gossips!

[via Pharyngula]

The dude who came up with “star registries” is smart and dude who came out with this oxygen adoption is brilliant!

Perhaps I shall start an “Adopt A Carbon Molecule Foundation” and you can adopt a carbon that was farted by our creator before.

Meredith F. Small wrote that sarcasm is skill for social survival.  Dr. Katherine Rankin, neurophysiologist at the University of California discovered that sarcasm is important (both positive and negative) in human social interaction.  If  you don’t get sarcastic jokes, it is probably your part of your right brain (parahippocampal gyrus) is damaged.  It is said that people decide how important a friend is based on how well one get their jokes.  So don’t blame me being sarcastic (which I always do, and that proves I’m more evolved than those who don’t get my sarcastic jokes).

Lone Grey wrote an article which I would like to share it.

I seem to recall, at least in Malaysia, the choice was fairly straightforward. There were only a few career paths that our parents had tried to indoctrinate us towards since an early age. The number one most popular choice of parents was for their children to be a doctor. Being an engineer was a close second, with lawyer third and so forth. Children being children, we had our own set of priorities. Movie Star was our number one choice.

As we grow up, it is said that our priorities change as our world view changes. I seem to recall that my very first venture into the realm of “what I want to be when I grew up” was quite simply to be rich! I wanted to be a millionaire. It did not matter how. The details were not important as long as I was filthy rich.

I never want to be a doctor (but my parents and grandparents do, and I let them down by choosing doing science). What I wanted to be was a filthy rich scientists (I watched too much cartoons and thought that scientists are rich and smart dudes).

Reality intervened and I realised that back home in Malaysia, there was zero research in the field of neurobiology or neurochemistry. It was more practical for me to study oleochemistry due to Malaysia’s love affair with oil palm, our golden crop. In the end, I settled on Microbiology as there was still a lot of diseases ravaging the country. By now, I had given up on the idea of being rich. Being famous in microbiology is also not all that great cause about the only way you become famous is to discover a new disease and have it named after you. From then on all who suffer the disease and the medical students who have to study the disease for their exams will curse your name as in “The doctor told me that I have that @#*%#@! disease.”

Immunologist is not needed back in the country as well.

I just had my molecular microbiology exam today. The mcq part was easy. However I guess I screwed up the short answers one as I’m not interested at the questions they asked.  Tomorrow is the “advanced molecular biology” exam.  Arghh!  I got to switch my prokaryotic molecular brain database to eukaryotic one in just one night.

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