Fear Factor

Fear Factor

This Halloween amid all the ghosts, goblins, ghouls, spiders, snakes, skulls, and skeletons that you may encounter remember FDR’s admonition that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” To that iconic, hope-bringing phrase, we would add, “and a lack of...
NO Puns

NO Puns

The title is itself a pun because NO stands for nitric oxide, a soluble gas that controls a huge number of critically important biological functions from vasodilation and platelet function to penile erections. The puns about NO in the scientific literature are...
We ❤️ RRx-001 (nibrozetone)

We ❤️ RRx-001 (nibrozetone)

I ❤️ [insert word or phrase]. These heart icons are so ubiquitous that we see them everywhere, for example on coffee mugs, T-shirts, and pens. Another use for this icon is we ❤️ RRx-001 (nibrozetone), and not just because how fantastic and fun it is to work with....
Garlic Repels More Than Vampires

Garlic Repels More Than Vampires

Inspired by the likes of Blade, Buffy, Van Helsing, and Abraham Lincoln (who weirdly dispatches bloodsuckers in an excellent novel and a movie) this Halloween we plan to dress up as Vampire Hunters. If vampires are a metaphor for diseases like cancer that feed off the...
Nibrozetone (RRx-001), Call Sign “Wingman”

Nibrozetone (RRx-001), Call Sign “Wingman”

The golden rule and central moral code from the first Top Gun movie are to “never, never leave your wingman”. Commander Rick “Jester” Heatherly delivers this lecture to reckless and headstrong Lieutenant Pete “Maverick” Mitchell after the latter flouts the rules of...