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Articles Written by: JONATHAN SCHEFF
Hákon Hákonarson and deCODE genetics CEO Kári Stefánsson used to
consider each other friends. Hákonarson, the former vice president of business
development at the Icelandic biopharmaceutical company, used to ride horses
with Stefánsson and spend ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
25 Apr 2008
In 2005 Jennifer Nyborg decided she wanted to build a Web site for her lab
at Colorado State University. She needed to decide what information to include,
how to organize and present it, and whether she wanted special effects such ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
1 Apr 2008
Postdoctoral fellows used to be called "the lost tribe of science," says
Graham Dockray, a physiologist at the University of Liverpool. "They were often
neglected and not always appreciated. That's changing." Since 2004, the
university's Rising Stars ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
11 Mar 2008
Eran Segal followed a meandering route to the field of computational biology. He began by earning a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tel-Aviv University in 1998, and went on to study in Stanford University's computer science department under ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
27 Feb 2008
The paper:
S. Mariathasan et al., "Cryopyrin activates the inflammasome in response to toxins and ATP," Nature, 440:228-32, 2006. (Cited in 121 papers)
The finding:
By observing mice deficient in the adaptor protein cryopyrin, Vishva Dixit of ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
11 Feb 2008
F. Delsuc et al., "Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates," Nature, 439:965-8, 2006. (Cited in 116 papers)
The finding:
Using a data set of 146 nuclear genes, including tunicate data from the Oikopleura ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
31 Jan 2008
First, physician Walter Freeman would peel open the patient's eyelid and insert an ice pick between the eyeball and the lid. He would tap the ice pick with a surgical hammer - or even a carpenter's mallet, if he was performing for a crowd and ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
18 Jan 2008
Scientists propose that global warming might be helping chytrid fungus kill frogs. This immunostained sample shows the fungus (in red) covering a section of frog skin.
Scientists became aware of extinctions in various frog species in the 1980s, when J. ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
7 Jan 2008
In a photograph taken at a Shanghai hospital in 1894, Yu Yung Lan appears pregnant. Her belly curves outward in the familiar oblong curve of expecting mothers, but hers is nearly six feet in circumference, overbearing her body, and stretching her skin ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
4 Jan 2008
A BMW advertisement calls Theo Jansen a kinetic sculptor, but Jansen considers his pieces to be more than inorganic objects. He refers to his beach-walking creatures -- created out of a type of yellow PVC tubing ubiquitous in the Netherlands -- not in ...
From JONATHAN SCHEFF,
The Scientist,
30 Nov 2007
