Biotech Hobbyist: instructions for bedroom and kitchen practitioners

An on-line magazine for beginners in biotechnology, with all the practical advice on how to install a self-made laboratory in your own home, where to get used discounted equipment and what should be the first experiments.

Aesthetic Vegetables

After a month break for Old Salt, it is time for something pretty and simple.  In the 19th century, French company Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie produced a glorious album of colour illustrations of French garden vegetables, including beets, potatoes, muskmelon and strawberries, The Vegetable Garden, 1850–1895, which has thankfully now been reproduced by Taschen. Prior to […]