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There are many options open to you; one obvious one is to apply for a postdoc position. You should think carefully about what you want to do and not just pursue this through inertia. I have supervised many engineering PhDs and some postdocs in my 32 years as an academic. As Head of University College London’s Doctoral School, I oversee the environment and policy for 6000 doctoral candidates and 3200 postdocs.  <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/06/25/what-should-you-get-from-being-a-postdoc#more-55241" class="more-link">Read more</a></p> </div> <div class="wpn-entry-meta"><div class="wpn-tags-list standard-teaser cleared"><h3>Tags:</h3><ul class="tags"><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/phd/" rel="tag">#PhD</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/academia/" rel="tag">academia</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/david-bogle/" rel="tag">david bogle</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/end-of-phd/" rel="tag">end of phd</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/independence/" rel="tag">independence</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/london/" rel="tag">London</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/look-for-in-a-postdoc/" 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wpn-category-scientists-on-the-move wpn-post-tag-academia wpn-post-tag-biomed-central wpn-post-tag-bmc wpn-post-tag-dana-berry wpn-post-tag-microbiology-2 wpn-post-tag-publishing-2 wpn-post-tag-science-careers cleared"> <p class="wpn-dateline"><time datetime="2018-05-04T13:00:31+01:00" pubdate><span class="published"><abbr class="value" title="2018-05-04">04 May 2018 </abbr>|<abbr class="value" title="13:00:31+0100"> 13:00 BST</abbr></span></time></p><h2 class='wpn-post-title entry-title article-heading secondary-heading'><a href='https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/05/04/science-careers-are-careers-that-involve-science/'>Science careers are careers that involve science</a></h2> <p class="wpn-byline">Posted by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/author/jack-leeming/" title="Jack Leeming">Jack Leeming</a></span><span class="divider"> | </span><span class="category"><span class="before">Categories: </span><a 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the BioMed Central blog network, part of Springer Nature.  <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/05/04/science-careers-are-careers-that-involve-science#more-55001" class="more-link">Read more</a></p> </div> <div class="wpn-entry-meta"><div class="wpn-tags-list standard-teaser cleared"><h3>Tags:</h3><ul class="tags"><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/academia/" rel="tag">academia</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/biomed-central/" rel="tag">biomed central</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/bmc/" rel="tag">BMC</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/dana-berry/" rel="tag">dana berry</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/microbiology-2/" rel="tag">microbiology</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/publishing-2/" rel="tag">publishing</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/science-careers/" rel="tag">science careers</a></li></ul></div> <aside> <div 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class="value" title="2018-04-27">27 Apr 2018 </abbr>|<abbr class="value" title="13:00:57+0100"> 13:00 BST</abbr></span></time></p><h2 class='wpn-post-title entry-title article-heading secondary-heading'><a href='https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/04/27/how-mentoring-stopped-me-giving-up/'>How mentoring stopped me giving up</a></h2> <p class="wpn-byline">Posted by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/author/jack-leeming/" title="Jack Leeming">Jack Leeming</a></span><span class="divider"> | </span><span class="category"><span class="before">Categories: </span><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/career-paths/" rel="tag">Career paths</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/careers-articles/" rel="tag">Careers articles</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/people-management-2/" rel="tag">People Management</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/perspectives/" rel="tag">Perspectives</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/research-2/" rel="tag">Research</a></span></p> <div class="wpn-entry-summary"> <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2018/04/27/how-mentoring-stopped-me-giving-up/" title="How mentoring stopped me giving up"><img src="https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/files/2018/04/IMG_2721.jpgm-smaller.jpg" alt="How mentoring stopped me giving up" class="thumbnail " width="150" /></a><p>The idea of solving scientific questions that have never been answered before has always excited me — especially if that knowledge might go on to help someone medically. 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Payne</a></span><span class="divider"> | </span><span class="category"><span class="before">Categories: </span><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/careers-articles/" rel="tag">Careers articles</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/multimedia/" rel="tag">Multimedia</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/news/" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/picks-of-the-week/" rel="tag">Picks of the week</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/social-media-2/" rel="tag">Social media</a></span></p> <div class="wpn-entry-summary"> <p>It’s not the first time we’ve taken this approach. In September 2017, Roberta Kwok discovered how old photos, logbooks and papers are a goldmine for fields such as ecology and climatology. 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disadvantage</a></h2> <p class="wpn-byline">Posted by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/author/karen-kaplan/" title="Karen Kaplan">Karen Kaplan</a></span><span class="divider"> | </span><span class="category"><span class="before">Categories: </span><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/career-paths/" rel="tag">Career paths</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/careers-articles/" rel="tag">Careers articles</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/faculty-2/" rel="tag">Faculty</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/in-the-news/" rel="tag">In the News</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/news/" rel="tag">news</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/postdoc-2/" rel="tag">Postdoc</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/postgraduate-2/" rel="tag">Postgraduate</a>, <a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/relationships/" 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She found that committee members assumed that heterosexual female candidates whose partners or husbands held academic or high-status jobs could not relocate for the job, and excluded them from offers when the committee had viable male or unpartnered female options. Yet, she says, committees — whose members included women — rarely discussed male applicants’ relationship status and assumed that those candidates’ partners or wives would be able to move for the position if an offer were made.  <a href="/naturejobs/2017/11/13/boyfriends-and-husbands-put-female-researchers-at-a-hiring-disadvantage#more-15773" class="more-link">Read more</a></p> </div> <div class="wpn-entry-meta"><div class="wpn-tags-list standard-teaser cleared"><h3>Tags:</h3><ul class="tags"><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/dsicrimination/" rel="tag">dsicrimination</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/female/" rel="tag">female</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/hiring/" rel="tag">hiring</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/junior-faculty/" rel="tag">junior faculty</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/married/" rel="tag">married</a></li><li><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/tag/paul-smaglik/" 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class="thumbnail " width="150" /></a><p>“Science is a multifaceted and large enterprise, and there are lots and lots of very interesting ways to contribute to science” said Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society, lab leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and joint winner of the 2009 Chemistry Nobel, at the 11th annual Naturejobs London Career Expo on Oct 4th 2017.  <a href="/naturejobs/2017/10/12/naturejobs-podcast-flexibility-and-forward-planning#more-15271" class="more-link">Read more</a></p> </div> <div class="wpn-entry-meta"> <aside> <div class="article-tools cleared"> <h2 class="hidden">Article tools</h2> <ul id="wpn-share-post-53891" class="wpn-entry-user-actions"> <li class="wpn-entry-comment-link"></li> <li class="sendtofriend"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/tell-a-friend?id=15271">Email</a></li> <li class="wpn-share-bookmark"> <h3 class="toggle-bookmarking-links">Share/bookmark</h3> <div id="bookmarking-links" class="bookmarking-popup"> 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src="https://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/files/2017/10/IMG_0124-smaller.jpg" alt="The Naturejobs Career Expo – some secrets to scientific success" class="thumbnail " width="150" /></a><p>Over one thousand scientists attended the Naturejobs Career Expo last week in London. 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class="cat-item cat-item-1152"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/carbon-markets/" >Carbon markets</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2830"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/career-paths/" >Career paths</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-505"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/careers/" >Careers</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3451 current-cat"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/careers-articles/" >Careers articles</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6761723"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/cartography/" >Cartography</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-674"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/categories/" >Categories</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-12069269"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/celebrating-the-day-of-light/" >Celebrating the Day of Light</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-423"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/cell-and-molecular-biology/" >Cell and molecular biology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2522"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/cell-biology/" >Cell Biology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-90"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/chemistry-2/" >Chemistry</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-18"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/chemistry/" >Chemistry</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6486427"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/chemistry-in-retrospect/" >Chemistry in retrospect</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-520"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/citation-analysis/" >Citation analysis</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1156"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/climate-change/" >Climate Change</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-391"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/climate-policy/" >Climate Policy</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1147"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/climate-prediction/" >Climate prediction</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-151"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/collaboration-2/" >Collaboration</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-135"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/communication-2/" >Communication</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-17"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/communities-happenings/" >Communities Happenings</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/community/" >Community</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-571"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/competing-interests/" >Competing interests</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6331"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/competition-2/" >Competition</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-908"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/computational/" >Computational</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-51"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/computational-approaches/" >Computational approaches</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-7"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/computational_approaches/" >Computational_approaches</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6089"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/computer-science/" >Computer science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3769"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/conference-highlights/" >Conference Highlights</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-13"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/conference-reports/" >Conference reports</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-510"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/conferences/" >Conferences</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5547"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/conservation-science/" >Conservation science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2382"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/cop18/" >COP18</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-16998238"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/covid19/" >COVID19</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-390"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/cryosphere/" >Cryosphere</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1301"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/cv/" >CV</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1163"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/daily-dose/" >Daily Dose</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-514"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/data-availability/" >Data availability</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-9"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/data-integration/" >Data integration</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4147"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/data-matters/" >Data Matters</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3302233"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/data-policy/" >Data policy</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1623389"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/datareuse/" >Data Reuse</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5054529"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/design/" >Design</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-836"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/development/" >Development</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1984"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/diabetes-and-metabolism/" >Diabetes and metabolism</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3325"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/digital-science-2/" >Digital Science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-502"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/disciplines/" >Disciplines</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2809"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/diversity-2/" >Diversity</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2667"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/drug-discovery/" >Drug discovery</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-353"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/drugs-drugs-and-more-drugs/" >Drugs, drugs and more drugs</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-365"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/durban-climate-summit/" >Durban climate summit</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1111"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/earth-and-environment/" >Earth and environment</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-827"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/earth-system-science-partnership/" >Earth System Science Partnership</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-113"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/earth-environment-ecology/" >Earth, environment & ecology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3973"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/ebola/" >Ebola</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-811"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/ecological-society-of-america/" >Ecological Society of America</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1112"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/ecology/" >Ecology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2659539"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/ecology-and-evolution/" >Ecology and Evolution</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2665"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/editor-posts-2/" >Editor Posts</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-39"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/editorials/" >Editorials</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-411"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/education/" >Education</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2408789"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/elisa-de-ranieri/" >Elisa De Ranieri</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-339"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/energy/" >Energy</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6389"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/entomology/" >Entomology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-405"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/entrepreneurship/" >Entrepreneurship</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-354"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/environment/" >Environment</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-7220771"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/environmental-sciences/" >Environmental sciences</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-318"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/ethical-social/" >Ethical / Social</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-435"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/ethics/" >Ethics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-96"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/europe/" >Europe</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-817"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/european-society-of-human-reproduction-embryology/" >European Society of Human Reproduction & Embryology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-830"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/euroscience-open-forum/" >Euroscience Open Forum</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-41"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/events/" >Events</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-818"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/everest-expedition/" >Everest expedition</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-499"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/evolution/" >Evolution</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1113"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/evolution-and-paleontology/" >Evolution and paleontology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-71"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/expeditions/" >Expeditions</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2044"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/faculty-2/" >Faculty</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1075"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/featured/" >Featured</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-596"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/feedback/" >Feedback</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3417"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/film/" >Film</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2857"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/films-2/" >Films</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-396"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/finance/" >Finance</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-340"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/financial-crisis/" >Financial Crisis</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6713"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/first-rounders/" >First Rounders</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-792"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/five-day-filter/" >Five Day Filter</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-932"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/food-science/" >food science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-524"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/format/" >Format</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-48"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/forum/" >Forum</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-332"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/fukushima/" >Fukushima</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-114"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/funding-2/" >Funding</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-131"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/funding/" >funding</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-37"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/gavin-armstrong/" >Gavin Armstrong</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-918"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/gene-expression/" >Gene expression</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4770911"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/gene-function/" >Gene function</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4205"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/gene-regulation/" >Gene regulation</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-450"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/general/" >General</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-109"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/general-interest/" >General interest</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4337"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/genetic-association/" >Genetic association</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-26"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/genetics/" >Genetics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2525"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/geneticsgenomics/" >Genetics & Genomics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-10"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/genome-wide/" >Genome-wide</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-810"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/geological-society-of-america/" >Geological Society of America</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1852"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/geoscience/" >Geoscience</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3531877"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/giulia-pacchioni/" >Giulia Pacchioni</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6916603"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/global-issues/" >Global issues</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-815"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/global-seed-vault-opening/" >Global Seed Vault opening</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-434"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/grants-tenure-and-positions/" >Grants, tenure and positions</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3344887"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/graphene-week/" >Graphene Week</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6137"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/guest-blog-posts/" >Guest blog posts</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4947"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/guest-features/" >Guest features</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3014"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/guest-post/" >Guest Post</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-410"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/health/" >Health</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-330"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/health-and-medicine/" >Health and medicine</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-307"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/hints-and-wrinkles/" >Hints and Wrinkles</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3873"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/history-of-genetics/" >History of genetics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-67"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/history-of-science/" >History of science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-954"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/hivaids/" >HIV/AIDS</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1636273"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/how-to-answer/" >How to answer</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1034"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/i-han-chou/" >I-han Chou</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-424"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/immunology/" >Immunology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2232"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/import/" >Import</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1192"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/in-the-field/" >In the Field</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1150"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/in-the-news/" >In the News</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1038"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/in-your-element/" >In your element</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-119"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/industry-2/" >Industry</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2374"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/infectious-diseases/" >Infectious diseases</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2769"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/institutions/" >Institutions</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-10842855"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/interactions/" >Interactions</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6525"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/interdisciplinarity/" >Interdisciplinarity</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-465"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/international-aids-conference/" >International AIDS conference</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-828"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/international-astronomical-union/" >International Astronomical Union</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1096"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/international-relations/" >International Relations</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-459"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/international-society-for-stem-cell-research/" >International Society for Stem Cell Research</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2419"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/internship/" >Internship</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-762"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/ip-tech-transfer/" >IP/ Tech Transfer</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-904"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/journal-happenings/" >Journal happenings</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-34"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/journal-journeys/" >Journal journeys</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-905"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/journal-policy/" >Journal policy</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-62"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/lab-life/" >Lab life</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-17296793"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/lab-story/" >Lab story</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-469"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/lepton-photon/" >Lepton Photon</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-9462111"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/libraries/" >Libraries</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2504255"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/liesbeth-venema/" >Liesbeth Venema</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3381875"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/lindau-lessons/" >Lindau lessons</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-53"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/lindau-nobel-laureate-meetings-lnlm/" >Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (lnlm)</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4897"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/linkage/" >Linkage</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1851"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/local-news/" >Local news</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2617289"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/luigi-martiradonna/" >Luigi Martiradonna</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-466"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/lunar-and-planetary-science/" >Lunar and Planetary Science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-350"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/malaria/" >Malaria</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5855"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/marine-science/" >Marine science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-914"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/mass-spectrometry/" >Mass spectrometry</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-33"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/materials-girl/" >Materials Girl</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1108"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/materials-science/" >Materials science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1120"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/medical-research/" >Medical research</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5581"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/medical-science/" >Medical science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-13963801"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/meet-the-editor/" >Meet the editor</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-17019199"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/meeting-report/" >Meeting report</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1160"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/meetings/" >Meetings</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2068"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/mentoring/" >Mentoring</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-439"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/mentoring-and-training/" >Mentoring and training</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-662003"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/metadata/" >Metadata</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-917"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/metagenomics/" >Metagenomics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2459"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/method-of-the-year/" >Method of the year</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1114"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/microbiology/" >Microbiology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2526"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/microscopyimaging/" >Microscopy & Imaging</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5481"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/military-science/" >Military science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1043"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/misconduct/" >Misconduct</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-24"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/mit/" >MIT</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1151"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/mitigation/" >Mitigation</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-115"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/mobility-2/" >Mobility</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2523"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/model-organisms/" >Model Organisms</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/modeling/" >Modeling</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5695"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/molecular-gastronomy/" >Molecular gastronomy</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-969"><a 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Genetics standards</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3271"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/nature-graphics/" >Nature Graphics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-3014885"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/nature-india-annual-volume/" >Nature India Annual Volume</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-15581046"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/nature-india-essay-competition/" >Nature India Essay Competition</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4759"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/nature-india-photo-contest/" >Nature India photo contest</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6310361"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/nature-india-photo-story/" >Nature India Photo Story</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6409"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/nature-india-special-issue/" >Nature India Special Issue</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-110"><a 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href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/news-and-updates/" >News and Updates</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5615"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/njce15/" >NJCE15</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-816847"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/njcedusseldorf/" >NJCEDusseldorf</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1030"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/noah-gray/" >Noah Gray</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-508"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/npg-special-content/" >NPG special content</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2847"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/obituary/" >Obituary</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-351"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/odds-and-ends/" >Odds and ends</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-341"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/oil-spill-science/" >Oil spill science</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1912"><a 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href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/other-authors/" >Other authors</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-30"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/other-columns/" >Other columns</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-861"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/other-contributors/" >Other Contributors</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-393"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/palaeoclimate/" >Palaeoclimate</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6117"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/palaeontology/" >Palaeontology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-333"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/paleontology/" >Paleontology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-875"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/particle-physics/" >Particle Physics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-399"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/partnering-licensing/" >Partnering / Licensing</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-511"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/partners/" >Partners</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-451"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/peer-review-debate/" >Peer review debate</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-432"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/peer-review-feedback/" >Peer Review Feedback</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-449"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/peer-review-trial/" >Peer review trial</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2878"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/people/" >people</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-179"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/people-management-2/" >People Management</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-442"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/perspectives/" >Perspectives</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-69"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/philosophy-or-psychology-or-ethics/" >Philosophy or Psychology or Ethics</a></li><li 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>Plant biology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-5465"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/plant-sciences/" >Plant sciences</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1890"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/podcasts/" >Podcasts</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-522"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/policies/" >Policies</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-690"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/policies-feedback/" >Policies Feedback</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-47"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/policy/" >Policy</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-433"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/policy-and-public/" >Policy and Public</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-392"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/politics/" >Politics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2752"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/pollution/" >Pollution</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-144"><a 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class="cat-item cat-item-6527"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/social-sciences/" >Social sciences</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-835"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/social-software/" >Social software</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1926273"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/society/" >Society</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-814"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/society-for-american-archaeology/" >Society for American Archaeology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-458"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/society-for-developmental-biology/" >Society for Developmental Biology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-809"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/society-for-neuroscience/" >Society for Neuroscience</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-460"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/society-for-the-study-of-reproduction/" >Society for the Study of Reproduction</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-876"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/sonyc/" >SoNYC</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-108"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/space/" >Space</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-331"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/space-and-astronomy/" >Space and astronomy</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-315"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/spotlights/" >Spotlights</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-4317543"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/springer-nature/" >Springer Nature</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6903485"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/springermaterials/" >SpringerMaterials</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-473"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/starting-the-lhc/" >Starting the LHC</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-257"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/stem/" >STEM</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-313"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/stem-cells/" >stem cells</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-358"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/stem-cellscloning/" >Stem cells/cloning</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-38"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/stephen-davey/" >Stephen Davey</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1951519"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/structural-biology/" >Structural Biology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-916"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/structural-genomics/" >Structural Genomics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-29"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/stuart-cantrill/" >Stuart Cantrill</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-504"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/support/" >Support</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-336"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/swine-flu/" >Swine flu</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-490"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/synthetic/" >Synthetic</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-463"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/synthetic-biology/" >Synthetic Biology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-427"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/systems/" >Systems</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1084"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/systems-medicine/" >Systems Medicine</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-436"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/technical-solutions/" >Technical solutions</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-107"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/technology/" >Technology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-208"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/technology-2/" >Technology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-335"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/neat-technologies/" >Technology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-164"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/tenure-2/" >Tenure</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1053"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/the-news-net/" >The News Net</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-316"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/there-and-back-again/" >There and Back Again</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-111"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/this-and-that/" >This and That</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1754"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/tools-and-techniques/" >Tools and Techniques</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-493"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/transcriptomics/" >Transcriptomics</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-359"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/tuberculosis/" >Tuberculosis</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-92"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/uk/" >UK</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/uncategorized/" >Uncategorized</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-137"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/undergraduate-2/" >Undergraduate</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-264"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/unemployment/" >Unemployment</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-223"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/union-2/" >Union</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-93"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/us/" >US</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2149"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/video/" >Video</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-55"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/video-and-podcasts/" >video and podcasts</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2373"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/virology/" >Virology</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2844"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/visualization-2/" >Visualization</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1913"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/wcc-3/" >WCC-3</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-6517"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/webcast/" >Webcast</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-2430"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/webcasts/" >Webcasts</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-43"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/weekly-round-up/" >Weekly round-up</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1967"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/weekly-update/" >Weekly Update</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-863"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/whats-new-in-nn/" >What's New in Nature Neuroscience</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-1079"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/wildlife/" >Wildlife</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-419"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/wisdom/" >Wisdom</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-357"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/womens-world/" >Women's world</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-455"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/world-conference-of-science-journalists/" >World Conference of Science Journalists</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-484"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/world-science-festival/" >World Science Festival</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-352"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/world-watch/" >World watch</a></li><li class="cat-item cat-item-507"><a href="https://blogs.nature.com/blog/category/writing/" >Writing</a></li></ul></div><div id="wpn-npg-natureblogs-links-widget-8" class="wpn-widget wpn-npg-natureblogs-links-widget wpn-"><h2 class="box-heading">All nature.com blogs</h2>