It is a lament heard in labs everywhere, usually on Friday nights: "I can't go out, I've got to run a gel." Whether you are a postdoc, technician, or full-fledged professor, chances are good you've ...

Leftover polyacrylamide gel from an electrophoresis procedure formed this flower shape thanks to some funky monomer diffusion. Sudeep Samanta, a PhD candidate at the Indian Institute of Technology ...