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Since the launch of RateMyPI.com, we have had many inquiries as to the purpose of this website. RateMyPI.com was founded to provide research investigators a comprehensive database to develop their...
View ArticleWhile You Were At the Bench: Week 40
It’s been a busy week for scientists, but here are some of the highlights. Contrary to the belief that retracted journal articles are due to simple errors, a recent PNAS article found that 67.3% of...
View ArticleKickstarting Your Career: Crowdfunding for Scientific Research
Christopher Columbus spent 7 years convincing private investors and heads of state to fund his idea of finding a faster trade route to the East Indies. As research scientists, we’re not much different...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 41
And the Nobel Goes To……. Physiology or Medicine: Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent Chemistry: Robert J. Lefkowitz...
View ArticleFive Things You Might Not Know About RateMyPI.com
Did you know…. You can create a membership for free? This allows you to search and review scientists. You can review any researcher you have ever worked with, not just your principal investigator?...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 42
Here we go again. Hisashi Moriguchi from the University of Tokyo has admitted to lying about a breakthrough procedure for transplanting cardiac stem cells into humans. Moriguchi sent a draft of the...
View ArticleHow Do Sexist Comments Affect Women in STEM?
The annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience brings together neuroscientists from around the world to discuss cutting edge research relevant to their fields of study. Unfortunately, this year’s...
View ArticleWhile You Were At the Bench: Week 43
Seven Italian seismologists have been found guilty of manslaughter for the deaths of 29 people killed in the 2009 earthquake that decimated the city of L’Aquila when they incorrectly assessed the risks...
View ArticleSo you want to be a medical science liaison?
As more and more PhDs are being pumped out, funding diminishes, and it becomes harder (or less desirable?) to obtain faculty positions, many scientists are making the switch to industry to pursue a...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 44
The hole in the ozone layer over Antartica reached its smallest maximal size in the last two decades. NASA and NOA scientists believe the warmer temperatures in the Antartic this year helped reduce...
View ArticleYou have your PhD, now what?
Recently, I have been asked by a number of my younger (in terms of degree, not necessarily age) friends and colleagues about how to find a postdoc, what to look for, and what questions to ask. As I am...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 45
After studying a cohort of 18-26-year-olds with autosomal dominant mutations in presenilin 1 that predispose them to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, researchers have determined structural changes to...
View ArticleHow does the 2012 election change policies on science, space & technology?
Every election year brings about changes to the US Senate and House of Representatives. But for scientists, it’s important to pay attention to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science,...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 46
Researchers at Stanford University have created an organic polymer that is pressure sensitive and self-healing making this material ideal for artificial skin on biomimetic prostheses. All the pieces...
View Article100% Efficacy for Improving Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s and Dementia...
This post deviates from our normal posts. It is not about careers. It is not directly about science and research. But it is about results. I recently attended a conference and had the pleasure of...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 47
I hope everyone in the US had a great Thanksgiving. I’ll keep this post short in case the Tryptophan is kicking in. Over the past year, cancer researchers from Georgetown University have developed a...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 48
Scientists at Wake Forest University have combined an ink jet printer and an electrospinning machine to fabricate cartlidge using viable tissue. This printer hybrid is a big step forward in designing...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 49
A small clinical trial has demonstrated that colorectal cancer can be detected in patients by analyzing the volatile organic compounds in their exhaled breath with up to 75% accuracy. While further...
View ArticleIs sensationalization of scientific findings unethical?
Gary Marcus recently published in The New Yorker entitled “Neuroscience Fiction”. It presents neuroscience as a science littered with inconsistencies and inaccurate data, referring mainly to PET and...
View ArticleWhile You Were at the Bench: Week 50
The Cassini orbiter has taken photos of a large river system on Saturn’s moon, Titan. The European Space Agency and NASA have deduced the image shows flowing water, making this the first photographic...
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