Science Graffiti

from a stairway at Harvard Medical School.

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Interesting tags ... just like street graffiti, scientific graffiti is probably meaningless to the untrained eye.

Here's a closeup:

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Notice the greek slang (lambda for microlitres), the violent use of base to strip off antibodies, the reference to blood sacrifice (IVT), and the malefic use of calcium. I'm guessing that these were the work of a former Rapoport lab member.

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Ha, that's funny. Do you have to learn greek?

By Adrian Clement (not verified) on 25 Mar 2007 #permalink

the only thing i can interpret from this abstract art is a possible neuron w/ dendrites and abnormally distended axonal bouton (possibly due to extreme hebbian learning?). and is that a western blot??