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Team of rivals

In early 2009, the chieftains of several pharmaceutical giants got together to discuss a new kind of biotechnology company. It would be a company guided by pharma to find and develop the technologies missing in the drug-making enterprise. But for it to ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Merck & Company, Inc.,  David Steinberg,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Langer Inc.,  Harvard University

Docs that rock

On a recent Monday night at World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, four bands took to the stage to determine who ruled rock. But manning the mics, guitars, and drums weren't your typical hipsters -- the members of these bands were students and ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Thomas Jefferson University,  University of Pennsylvania,  Aerosmith (musician),  Black Eyed Peas,  Steven Tyler

Family versus science

The pressures of family obligations and child-rearing are pushing young female researchers out of science, according to a new study released this month by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank based in Washington, DC. The report ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Center for American Progress,  National Science Foundation

More promises for EU research

The European Commission (EC) has promised to improve how research is funded in Europe. Responding to a critique of the European Research Council (ERC) today (October 22), the EC provided timelines for appointing a scientist to head the council and for ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Commission,  European Parliament,  European Union

What's dogging NYC biotech?

Biotech is floundering in New York City because local institutions aren't doing enough to promote commercialization of small projects, says a new report. "The criticism," said Jonathan Bowles of the Center for an Urban Future, a New York City think ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: National Science Foundation,  PricewaterhouseCoopers,  New York University,  Columbia University,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Viral cause for chronic fatigue?

A recently-discovered virus found to be associated with prostate cancer has now been linked to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), according to a study published online in Science today (8 October). The study, although only correlative, lends a greater ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  9 Oct 2009

EU moves to unify science

Europe must invest more money and create better infrastructure to support science in order to remain globally competitive, said an independent panel of scientists advising the European Union in a report released today (October 6). The group, called ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Commission,  European Union

Fragile flu, siliciferous smallpox

A virus has a relatively easy time replicating itself. It's just a matter of hijacking a cell to generate the necessary components and in minutes, the capsid shell proteins self-assemble around a coil of viral genome. But for the glassblowers working ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Brian Jones

Directing degradation

S. Pankiv et al., “p62/SQSTM1 binds directly to Atg8/LC3 to facilitate degradation of ubiquitinated protein aggregates by autophagy,” J Biol Chem , 282:24131–45, 2007. (Cited in 113 papers) Terje Johansen and his colleagues at the University of ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  28 Sep 2009

Six biologists win Nat'l Medal

Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter, former adversaries in the race for sequencing the human genome, are two of the six life scientist who will receive the National Medal of Science this year. Also among the awardees is Joanna Fowler, a ...

From EDYTA ZIELINSKA, The Scientist,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: J. Craig Venter,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  White House

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