This Week In Words

ByNicola

This week has involved our group finalizing numerous research abstracts that need to be submitted ready for this year’s AALAS meeting. So it’s been a very intestinal-oriented week. With somewhat of a helicobacter bias!

This is a word cloud generated by the website Wordle. It consists of a mixture of dozens of words chosen from text that had been inserted into the app based on scientific writing work I did in the week prior to initially writing this post.

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