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Anyone out there ever reviewed SBIR or STTR grants for the NIH? Any thoughts on what seems to be most important, common pitfalls and the like? Any thoughts on how the review discussion tends to differ from standard R01 review? I have essentially zero experience with these mechanisms and some reader was asking.....
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This week's MMWR describes cases of bronchiolitis obliterans diagnosed in two individuals who worked--- not at a microwave popcorn plant----at a Texas coffee bean processing company.
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My mother has a century plant in her yard (well, now it's several), and almost every year, this giant purple asparagus-looking shaft begins its majestic rise.And you know to me it looks like a giant purple penis, because I'm that kinda gal. I'm still limping around, so I sent Lily out to take a picture of it, but she couldn't figure out what I was talking about (I called it a purple asparagus), so Bobby grabbed my phone and went out. What resulted was proof that the apple doesn't fall far from […]
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Though numerous minorities face severe discrimination in countries around the word, there are few that face the extreme conditions experienced by "untouchable" Dalits in India and other parts of south-east Asia. Though Dalits are actually a mixed population with different...
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After struggling through a norovirus outbreak that sickened 67 people last month, Denmark’s Noma got some more bad news, relinguishing the title of world’s best restaurant to Spain’s El Celler de Can Roca The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list compiled … Continue reading →
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Although the prevention of iodine deficiency-related brain damage and reduction of IQ in children through the iodization of salt is seen as an important public health nutrition success story, there have been recent reports that iodine status is not yet optimal, even in high income countries. Iodine is needed to produce two thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). Thyroid hormones have wide-ranging roles in the body related to protein synthesis and enzyme activity, which in […]
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The number of people sickened at the Hilton Westchester a week ago appears to be in the hundreds as health officials try to determine what caused the intestinal outbreak. Early indications are that the vomiting and diarrhea were caused by … Continue reading →
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Excerpts below from an op-ed in in the Irish Times by Prof Alan Reilly, chief executive of Food Safety Authority of Ireland. Over three months have elapsed since the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) uncovered the practice of replacing processed beef … Continue reading →
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The U.S. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services announced Friday that the long-standing FDA ban on the import of Italian cured meats will be lifted starting May 28, and presumably the flood of salami, bresaola and pancetta will start washing … Continue reading →
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Many years ago when I was a much younger scientist, reading through the literature was occasionally frustrating. I'd come across a lab working on some question of interest and wonder why they just.....stopped, almost before they got going. Often the authors in question never returned to the published literature and I would wonder what happened. [...]
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It’s been a hectic, stressful, emotional two weeks here in Boston. As some of you know, I grew up in the area — at the top of Heartbreak Hill, which comes at the end of four miles worth of hills …
