Recently added articles from The Scientist:
Bailed Out by Science
Aug 01, 2009; ... The US healthcare system is hurting, but research can come to its rescue. IT'S A DAUNTING TASK, BUT THE AILING BEAST THAT IS THE U5 HEALTHCARE system must be brought to heel. Its feverish appetite for dollars needs to be curbed while getting the brute to recognize everyone in society is ...
Mail
Aug 01, 2009; ... Write The Scientist 400 Market Street, Suite 1250 Philadelphia, PA 19106 Email mail@the-scientist.com Fax (215)351-1146 Taxonomy, RIP? Re: "A fading field"' about the disappearance of traditional taxonomy, about fifteen years ago, I was accepted ...
Errata
Aug 01, 2009; ... The original version of "Best Places to Work: Industry" stated that Infinity Pharmaceuticals had secured funding through acquisition. Infinity Pharmaceuticals was not acquired, but rather, maintained Its growth by entering Into partnerships. The article also listed Christian Fritz as the ...
Am I a biohazard?
Aug 01, 2009; ... Brooklyn, New York, April 21, 19:00 hours: Molecular biologist Ellen Jorgensen and I spread a plastic tarp over my cherry table and parquet floor. Then, one by one, we set vials and pipettes down, preparing a lab in my living room. We had dubbed it DNA and Pizza Night on the DIYbio message ...
Epigenetic suicide note
Aug 01, 2009; ... Recently, Moshe Szyf, a McGiIl University epigeneticist, performed a series of experiments indicating that chemical marks on people's brain cells can reveal suicidal tendencies long before these people consider taking their own lives. To start, Szyf and his colleague Michael Meaney ...