Promising ideas
The work I am most proud of is not my best-known work. As a graduate student, I was enthralled by a mysterious phenomenon of emergent cell synchrony that …
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Author Archives: Nikolai Slavov
Single-cell proteomics
Ever since my lab posted the SCoPE-MS preprint, I have been repeatedly asked about the future potential and the cost …
Inadvertent Support
Everyday, thousands of colleagues use social media to express surprise, dislike, or even outrage for the impact factor, for articles …
Magnanimity pays off
Francis Crick exceeded the brilliance of his famous double helix model by this magnanimous act:
Premature human engineering
The news buzz alive with excitement about human genome editing, even human germline engineering. Successful germline engineering requires (1) a technology …
Increasingly direct evidence
The results in our Cell report are particularly satisfying to me since they bring clarity to a puzzle that I …
Professors abusing power
I have only great things to say about my doctoral mentor, David Botstein, and my post-doctoral mentor, Alexander van Oudenaarden. …
Chalk talks are awesome!
Interviews for tenure track positions are not to be feared but to be anticipated and enjoyed. If your experience is anything like mine, you will meet many thoughtful colleagues and perhaps even start new collaborations. Enjoy the adventure!
Why I did not quit
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) asked why doctoral students do not give up their research despite the …
Science and failures of authority
One of the key milestones in the emergence of the scientific method was placing empirical evidence above authority. This shift …
