This week’s news includes the suspension of a researcher working to make petri dish-grown meat a reality, an early end to Japan’s research whaling season due to anti-whaling activists, a study showing the brain’s visual reading centers lighting up when blind people read Braille, statistics suggesting the success rate for experimental drugs is plummeting, and…
It’s no big secret that we’re not fans of the journal impact factor. So it’s possibly justified to feel a little smug that overstating conclusions of research is positively correlated with impact factor.
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair The International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge was created by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Science to celebrate the tradition of science illustration—from Leonardo da Vinci to the present day—and to encourage its continued growth and relevance. There are categories in Photography, Illustrations, Informational Posters and…
Development of the vasculature of solid cancers (tumour angiogenesis) is a promising target for therapy, leading to interest in proteins such as angiostatin, endostatin and tumstatin. These generally act to inhibit tumor angiogenesis, but there’s also been a fair amount of recent interest in renormalizing the somewhat strange vasculature of cancers to increase the supply…
It all started with an email: “My chair flipped out when I told him.” Someone had signed up for an intensive grant writing course, then backed out because his chair didn’t want to make the investment with their “dwindling pool of funds.” Instead the chair said he would spend his own personal time helping the…
It’s clearly no longer just the drug of the young, rich and trendy: a decrease in street value over the years has led to a marked rise in usage and availability of cocaine, and it’s an ever-present favourite with the media. The BBC news website alone has dozens of cocaine-related news results since the beginning…
This week’s news includes the surprising new role of the public sector in drug development, the conclusion of a misconduct case, more residual effects of Chernobyl, the new science gender gap, a second attempt at a non-peer-reviewed journal, and the remarkable re-evolution of frog’s teeth.
As promised, a fishy Valentine’s greeting from Ray Troll: Listen through for some serious biology about these lovely little suckers, “the cutest fish in the entire sea.” (Download Lumpsuckers of Love mp3.) Down below the deep blue sea There’s a spiny lumpsucker for you and me Looking in your big green eyes I love the…
It’s Valentine’s Day on Monday, and Darwin’s Birthday on Saturday. What better way to celebrate these two events than a sandwich of art and music? Ray Troll is an artist and musician in Alaska. He’s kindly provided this artwork in celebration of the great man:
Via the University of Lincoln research office blog, I came across a report from a study tour of the Wellcome Trust. The Trust is well known for its prestigious (and generous) awards—programme grants, project grants, and various fellowships—in biomedical research, giving over £600 million annually, but it also has quite an extensive interest in the…
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