There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.

lol. if tom / alan had a sense of humour, he'd know this post is lulzworthy.

Chilamakuri et al. (2014) found that the Nextera kit had increased coverage of high GC content areas as the result of altered bias in the transposome technology used during fragmentation, decreasing its overall uniformity; however, recent changes to the protocol in the new versions may have improved this.

A while ago I read your column concerning the effects of hot tea on styrofoam cups.