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We have an update on two papers about lung cancer screening by Claudia Henschke and colleagues that were subject to an Expression of Concern early last year. The original Expression of Concern in Cancer read, in part: This Expression of Concern is based on an April 29, 2011, article in The New York Times as [...]
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Last August, we reported on an Expression of Concern in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine for a paper on HIV and lung injury. The notice said that the University of Nebraska, home to several of the paper’s authors, had begun an inquiry. Today, the university issued a statement on the case, [...]
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When we learned earlier this week that Bharat Aggarwal, the MD Anderson researcher under investigation there for possible misconduct, had directed his attorneys to send us a pull-all-your-posts-about-our-client-or-we’ll-sue-you letter, we wondered if he’d included the Houston institution in that decision. Turns out he’d been acting on his own. Scott Merville, a spokesperson for MD Anderson [...]
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Captain Ahab went insane chasing the elusive Moby Dick. Good news: you don’t have to suffer a similar fate. On May 1 at 6:30pm, Scientific American will co-host a whale-themed tweet-up and reception in partnership with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The event is timed to coincide with the recent [...]
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Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceA huge, lucrative, and increasingly controversial scheme to certify ‘sustainable’ fish has taken another broadside from researchers today. Read more
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Plant Physiology, the official journal of the American Society of Plant Biologists, has retracted a 2004 article by a team of ag industry researchers, including a husband-wife duo, for what could be misconduct. The retraction notice is vague enough, however, that we’re not entirely sure what went wrong, and no one wants to help us [...]
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Originally posted on Of Schemes and Memes Blog - a community blog from nature.comWelcome to another Friday quiz, and apologies for the somewhat intermittent service of late. If your brow has been stubbornly unfurrowed for longer than you’d wish, then today’s selection of testers ought to rectify that. We begin with the cheery subject of death. Read more
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Originally posted on Stepwise - a blog from Nature ProtocolsModel organisms are much used in modern biology. Generally small and easy to keep in the lab, these creatures serve as the ‘typical example’ of a type of organism or biological process. Fruitflies, mice, yeast, zebra fish, Arabidopsis, etc. The list of organisms that can be regarded as models sometimes seems so long that the concept is itself undermined; how long before we see the platypus championed as a model? Nevertheless the […]
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We’ve come across three notices in cardiology journals this week, so although they’re unrelated, we’re gathering them here. Item 1, from Circulation Research: The authors of the following article, which published Online First on October 9, 2012, have requested that it be retracted from publication in Circulation Research: Gao Q, Jiang Y, Dai S, Wang [...]
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This week is geek-fest. Solar-powered planes, Monkey butts, sperm cryopreservation, transparent brains and more. Voooooom in… – In awesome this week, blogger Aatish Bhatia looks at solar-powered planes. (As a rule, try to read Aatish’s every blog post.) Solar planes are cool, but they’re not the future of flight Have you heard of the Solar [...]
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Originally posted on Indigenus - a blog from Nature IndiaI found it quite interesting that an Indian city should have a proper ‘action plan’ to tackle the effects of changing climate patterns that have resulted in some severe summer temperatures in the last decade. Living in India, the action plans by city or state administrations we have mostly seen are: close schools and colleges, close offices and at best issue a “do not venture out between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m” notice. There have been […]
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Originally posted on Of Schemes and Memes Blog - a community blog from nature.comShould I bother with a promotion? Read more
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Originally posted on Soapbox Science - a community guest blog from nature.comSharon Levy is a freelance science writer who specializes in making natural resource and conservation issues accessible for a broad audience. She is the author of Once and Future Giants, a book that introduces the idea that Ice Age megafauna extinctions hold important lessons for modern conservation. She lives in Humboldt County, California. Read more
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- Rob Dunn – A Wild Bet: Can Inoculating Newborns with Innocuous Strains of Bacteria Save Them from Deadly Ones? - Ricki Lewis – A Spleen Gene–and a Ribosomal Surprise - Julie Hecht – Dogs in pantyhose - Hadas Shema – May the odds be ever in your favor: academic tenure [...]
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A unique Collaborative Research Science Program to improve understanding of the environmental, economic and social value of the Great Australian Bight was today announced by BP Developments Australia (BP), CSIRO and Marine Innovation Southern Australia (MISA). The A$20 million Science [...]testThe post Building a bigger picture of the Bight appeared first on Australian Science.
