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The fact that everything looks different doesn't mean that all has changed

VEGF-C/VEGFR-2 complex structure took 13 years to solve

Finally our paper was accepted for publication in PNAS (downloadable also from here). I started the project by making the first construct 13 years ago, but it went nowhere for the first 9 years due to insufficient concentration of efforts and a few unlucky choices in the experimental design.


Growing tomatoes on a balcony in Finland

We live in Helsinki, Finland. Helsinki is something like 60° North and the climate is anything but favorable for anything except mushrooms, blueberries and reindeer lichen. But our apartment has a glassed balcony facing South and so I thought it should be possible to grow some veggies there.


Chicken Embryo

Chicken Embryo

Click the image to see the heart beat!


Finally some good self-made chocolate ice cream

Ariete ice cream makerAriete ice cream maker Last summer I bought an ice cream maker (the one on the left). Some of the ice cream I made was quite OK, but only now did I succeed in making ice cream that compares favorably to Mövenpick or similar.


Giant soap bubbles

Picture credit: Kuribo (CC)Picture credit: Kuribo (CC) There are hundreds of web pages describing recipes for giant soap bubbles.


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