parfait Post Source: www.garyjones.org Posted: Dec 02 2008 17:20:04
In an old post I waxed lyrical, in a geeky sort of way, about soil life.
When I walk my fields I entertain fantasy visions of walking on a spongy mass of wriggling, ravenous microbes. It helps that my fields - or at least those I’ve had the management of for a couple of years - are in fact soft and yielding since they are rich in organic matter and living material so that even when bone d...... [Show More]
Darwin was a classic Brit toff of his generation - crumpets and tea and genteel unbelief sat well with administering the parish church. Indeed. British physicist David Tyler tells us,Â
In an informative essay, Janet Browne reflects on three Darwin commemorations: his funeral in Westminster Abbey, the 1909 centennial and the 1959 celebration. Each grasped the “opportunity to push an agen...... [Show More]
CollabRx , a CommerceNet portfolio company, was featured in "Twin Disorders," an article in the November 2008 issue of The Scientist.
"CollabRx facilitates collaboration between researchers of Niemann-Pick Type C.
"The purpose is to find therapies faster by getting scientists to develop a targeted strategy for doing so, share ideas and data, and making sure no one doubles a...... [Show More]
Recado suspeito. Cr??dito: passiveagr essivenote s Segundo o blog da revista The Scientist, este caso ocorreu no Departamento de Urologia na Universidade da Calif??rnia. O aluno de p??s-doc Benchun Liu admitiu ?? pol??cia local que tentou envenenar o seu colega de trabalho Mei Cao n??o s?? uma, mas duas vezes. Na verdade a pol??cia s?? descobriu o fato porque o potencial assassino contou ??...... [Show More]
a protective gene Post Source: feeds.b5media.com Posted: Nov 14 2008 21:09:09
Grace at Genetics and Health posts about research on regions of DNA that may increase the risk to hereditary autism (from Craegmoor Healthcare ). The findings were reported on at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Philadelphia:
According to the Scientist , a large-effect allele that provides protection against autism was found on chro...... [Show More]
It’s not too often in genetics that we hear about finding evidence that a gene lowers the risk of disease.
This latest news must have been greeted with cautionary hope at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Philadelphia. According to the Scientist , a large-effect allele that provides protection against autism was found on chromosome 5 near the semaphorin 5A (SEM...... [Show More]
Getting in the middle of a scientific controversy is more dangerous than you might think. I have fond memories of a conference at which, under the influence of the product of yeast anaerobic sugar metabolim, I watched two well known professors very nearly come to blows over a question regarding the role of chromatin in gene expression. When you throw in a group of pseudo-scientific know nothings ...... [Show More]
Interestingly that a 16-year-old frozen mouse DNA can be cloned via nuclear cell transfer. You probably have seen Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park - a movie that was critically condemned by biological scientists due to its non-factual theory about cloning ancient DNA from a mosquito.
Therefore, readers have to understand that frozen DNA cannot be cloned as ice crystals able to damage the ...... [Show More]
...mia, Postdoc, and Industry — is currently in its 6th year. Full results of the "Best Places to Work in Academia 2008," methodology, and other BPTW surveys are available online at www.the-sc ientist.co m/bptw .
The Scientist’s November issue, available on select newsstands, through subscription and online at www.the-sc ientist.co m , features detailed survey results and rankings of the top 40 U.S. institutions and the top 10 international institutions. The online magazine also includes extras like interactive charts, additional data and a slideshow featuring some... [Show More]
“Library 2.0 - Secrets from science librarians that can save you hours of work.” titelt The Scientist. Erzählt wird die Geschichte einer Doktorandin der Medizin, die durch die Hilfe des Wissenschaftlichen Bibliothekars David Osterbur, der an der Countway Medical Library der Harvard Medical School tätig ist, bei ihrer Recherche sehr viel Zeit gespart hat.
Bibliothekare der heutigen Ze...... [Show More]
“Library 2.0 - Secrets from science librarians that can save you hours of work.” titelt The Scientist. Erzählt wird die Geschichte einer Doktorandin der Medizin, die durch die Hilfe des Wissenschaftlichen Bibliothekars David Osterbur, der an der Countway Medical Library der Harvard Medical School tätig ist, bei ihrer Recherche sehr viel Zeit gespart hat.
Bibliothekare der heutigen Ze...... [Show More]
Particle Accelerator at the Weizmann Institute Photo by Niv on Wikimedia Commons . Used under Creative Commons license.
The November issue of The Scientist magazine has named two Israeli institutions as the best places to work in science (not including the United States). Heading off the Top 10 list (PDF) is the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot followed at #2 b...... [Show More]
¿Sabías que los perros estudian la cara de las personas como lo hacen los humanos?
Según un artículo publicado por la revista británica The Scientist , los perros miran primero el lado derecho del rostro de una persona y lo analizan más que el izquierdo, igual que hacen los seres humanos.
Los humanos tienden a mirar primero la mitad derecha del rostro de una persona que ven por primera...... [Show More]
... research into the causes and treatment of childhood diseases would not familiarize herself with the scientific foundation necessary to do that."
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http://www .the-scien tist.com/b log/displa y/55137/
One of the biggest ironies is that Palin is supposed to be an advocate for research on children’s disorders and these sorts of things. Last year’s March of Dimes prize was awarded for work done on a molecule called Hedgehog , a major signaling molecule in all animals. The molecule, originally discovered in fruit flys, is implicate... [Show More]
Great to see Dr. Karen Lips comment on the Panama Canal breach of the frog-killing fungus . This is from The Scientist, specifically from a post dated Oct. 17 ( full story here ):
“The findings are a concern because it means the fungus will continue to move through eastern Panama, and we only have a [limited time] to do what we can to save the frogs, collect data, watch,”...... [Show More]
bioterror bombast Post Source: harmanonearth.wordpress.com Posted: Oct 17 2008 15:09:52
Three steps to rethinking the federal germlab/bi oterror/ag ro-defense research compound known as the National Bio- & Agro-Defense Facility...
1) Perry’s last-minute effort to grease the machine fails.
Numbskull Perry, months after the approved deadline for greasing special deals with the Feds, tries to raise the state’s share of tax breaks to lure the lab in. Feds say, ‘...... [Show More]
Over at Effect Measure, Revere takes issue with a science educator’s hand-wringing over what science students (and scientists) don’t know . In a piece at The Scientist , James Williams (the science educator in question) writes:
Graduates, from a range of science disciplines and from a variety of universities in Britain and around the world, have a poor grasp...... [Show More]
A pair of interesting articles showed up recently in the Scientist magazine web-site (free registration required). The two articles speak to the need for education in the history and philosophy of science. The arguments presented (and the biases revealed) make for interesting reading.
The first article is What makes science “sci ence” ;? By James Williams, subtitled &#...... [Show More]
What makes Sience ‘Sci ence’ ;?
Only a few of the graduates had studied any history and philosophy of science, and therein lies the problem. The majority had high quality degrees and some had doctorates in a science discipline, so it wasn’t that they were not well qualified in science. It was just that their study of science had been utilitarian, a means to an end with the end b...... [Show More]
Oh god, we got a new stem cell scandal yesterday - this time, in the adult stem cell field.
In 2002, a high-profile paper from Catherine Verfaillie’s group , based at the University of Minnesota was published in Nature journal. The impact of this study on the public and scientific communities was tremendous, because authors claimed that they isolate adult bone marrow stem cells with...... [Show More]
Part I of a four part series discussing scientific poster presentations.
Why are so many poster presentations so bad ?
Presenting a poster is too often seen as an easy way out, a quick no-consequence way of attending a meeting. But posters often have greater impact than many talks. Sure, your audience is smaller than giving a talk. But at a poster, the people most interested in your work ...... [Show More]
What Makes Science ‘Sci ence’ ;? Trainee teachers don’t have a clue, and most scientists probably don’t either. That’s bad news.
So says James Williams, kvetching in The Scientist, 22(10) October 2008, Page 29:
As a science educator, I train science graduates to become science teachers. Over the past two years I’ve surveyed their understanding of key ...... [Show More]
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