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Curious Tales from the History of Biology
How fundamental techniques and ideas were born
What’s Inside:
- Dive into some flukes, epiphanies and weirdness of the evolution of biological research;
- Find out how plasmids became embroiled in Soviet ideology during the Cold War;
- Learn where the name “western blot” came from – and why shouldn’t it be capitalized, while the Southern blot should be;
- Baffle your lab-mates with little-known bio-trivia.