Reading Nature

After ploughing through pages and pages of application instructions, browsing journal articles surprisingly makes a good change.

Today, I actually found myself enjoy reading Nature medicine journals. I don't know whether this nerdy streak should be a cause for celebration or alarm. But anyhow, it sure came late. Three years late, in fact. I was supposed to be engrossed by science and nature articles since jc time, was i not? hahaha

So i've been poking around some articles published by Goodell et al. Her signature 1996 paper, describing a method to isolate stem cell subpopulation in HSCs, was among the first ones I read at the start of my attachment. Her protocol has been adopted by many others (including my humble self) to obtain and characterise subpopulations. Goodell's lab apparently was in Harvard Medical School last time, but now has transferred to Baylor. What a pity. Houston, Texas is not my ideal grad school environment.

By the way, i love reading the "Spoonful of medicine" blog. Though its not so frequently updated (only about 8-10 posts/month), its reflections on current med news are quite brilliant.