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"Dear Dr Fleming,

Your lab is a mess."


Cell biology is a messy science.

Cells never behave how you want or expect. Except when you least expect it.

Some constants: Transfections are variable. Mountant is messy. Immersion oil is messy. Data are never unequivocal.

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It's also messy when you're making a solution of 20% SDS and it boils over onto the hotplate.

Smoky, too.

Not that I would know anything about that. Oh no, not at all.

Ooh, that's a good one.

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Black Knight is interested in the interaction of science (as a day job and as a way of thinking) with his family, the wider community and literature. And tormenting students. Frequently polemical, sometimes serious, and hopefully always entertaining more

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