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Electron microscopic studies were performed on cultured fibroblasts from patients with metachromatic leukodystrophy, Fabry’s, Gaucher’s, Niemann-Pick’s (Type A and C),...
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One of the hot topics at this year’s annual ASCO meeting is clearly going to be PD-1 and PD-L1 immunotherapies,…
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We live in a time of extraordinary medical advances. So far in 2013, we’ve seen the successful transplantation of a bioengineered kidney into rats, an infant reportedly cured of HIV using anti-retroviral drugs that are currently on the market, and discovered a protein that has the potential to ‘reverse aging’ in the heart. These ‘small...Read more
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The journal impact factor insurrection, which began last December in San Francisco, is spreading through scientific institutions and organizations around the world.
ASCB Urges All Researchers to Sign the DORA Pledge
An ad hoc coalition of unlikely insurgents—scientists, journal editors and publishers, scholarly societies, and research funders across many scientific disciplines—today posted an international declaration calling on the world scientific community to eliminate the role of
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I came across an interesting study about the consensus in the scientific community on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), i.e. the idea that human activity is very likely causing most of global warming. What makes this study so interesting is the fact that it involved a “citizen science” approach. Volunteers who contributed to the Skeptical Science website were asked to grade the abstracts of 11, 944 scientific papers on global climate change that were published in the years 1991-2011. […]
