Nuclear weapons and open science science March 11, 2022 Probably the best book I’ve read last year was “The making of the atomic bomb” by Richard Rhodes1. Nuclear physics,... Read more »
Sulla pericolosità degli azzeccagarbugli numerologi science April 16, 2020 Ho letto con sorpresa e poi orrore le dichiarazioni del presidente della Camera civile di Prato, Duccio Balestri, pubblicate ne... Read more »
Anecdotal evidence of the effectiveness of the Italian lockdown science March 19, 2020 Are Italians are complying with the lockdown aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19? It’s yesterday’s news that aggregated cell... Read more »
Can a biologist fix a smartphone? science December 6, 2018 About a month ago two unrelated events happened: I presented our work on gene knockout libraries across four yeast strains... Read more »
Molecular biology is the new radioactivity science July 16, 2018 Culture plays an important role in shaping our society. Throughout history, stories, poems and songs have commented on the world... Read more »
Methods section driven reproducibility science May 21, 2018 A cornerstone of the scientific method has always been the ability to draw the same conclusions after the execution of... Read more »
The periodic table science March 14, 2017 A few months ago the IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) had to take a decision on the... Read more »
Phenotype Microarray data analysis in BioPython nerd June 15, 2016 Everyone who does computational biology and has wrote at least one Python script probably knows about the BioPython library. I... Read more »
Design (in computational biology) matters science November 25, 2015 Unlike the usual attitude among bioinformaticians (weep at the horrible state of the software in the field, the proliferation of... Read more »
Appendices to “Guns, Germs and Steel” science December 7, 2014 A particularly exciting part of scientific writing involves broad views on earth and human history; basically coming to very insightful... Read more »