One of the things I love about the iPhone is its ability to render any website as if on a desk/lap top computer. When I was responsible for the F1000 website, I was terribly pleased that the new designs just worked (and they still do. I’ll soon be able to give you some good news…
Biology would be a lot easier if we could see what we were doing. This maybe isn’t so much a problem for ecologists, but for many of the rest of us our objects of attraction are not just very, very small, but also pretty similar to everything else around them. We have to use fancy…
So, as you’ve probably heard by now, a judge has blocked U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to expand the number of embryonic stem cell lines the government will fund research on, arguing it would violate federal law by destroying embryos.
Embattled Harvard biologist Marc Hauser issued a brief mea culpa that ran in the Boston Globe on Friday (20th August). In it, Hauser admits making “some significant mistakes” and urges the scientific community to wait for the conclusion of a federal investigation by the Office of Research Integrity before passing judgment. “I have learned a…
No leader at misconduct agency The Office of Research Integrity hasn’t had a director since the spring of 2009, according to the Report on Research Compliance, a monthly newsletter from Atlantic Information Services. Despite his retirement in September 2009 after being on leave since March 2009, Chris Pascal was still listed as director in July…
It is no secret I love my iPhone. As a telephony device (in which I include text messages as well as voice) it is very nice indeed, but its real strength, for me, lies in its internet connectivity. Oh, and location services: the most used apps on my iPhone are Mail, Safari and Maps. I…
It was such an interesting week at F1000 that I didn’t have space on Wednesday to mention a couple of tidbits of Faculty news. So here we go. First, this poster on the DNA damage response from a group in Spain has a somewhat quirky design. I think the link to Star Wars comes from…
One of my least favourite episodes in Australia was contracting pneumonia, with an associated pleural effusion. However, when they finally got around to sticking a tube into my chest to drain the fluid, I did manage to scrounge a CD full of MRI images of my own chest (I paid for them, after all). There’s…
A bombshell revelation in The Chronicle of Higher Education today pertaining to the somewhat mysterious case of Harvard evolutionary psychologist Marc Hauser and his alleged academic wrongdoing: junior researchers in Hauser’s lab are accusing the well-known scientist and book author of intentionally doctoring his data on monkey behavior to fit with his theories about the…
Rather than the familiar adaptive immune system based on immunoglobulin domains and major histocompatibility complex antigens common to mammals and most other vertebrates, jawless vertebrates such as lampreys and hagfish use modular units of leucine-rich repeat (LRR) proteins called “variable lymphocyte receptors” (VLRs) A and B.
