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Improving Scientific Efficiency in Undergraduate Research Laboratories

March 18, 2016
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In depictions of the founding age of science, such as that of Dr. Frankenstein, we always see the lone scientist…

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Cell News—Lysosome pH varies based on organelle’s position in the cell

March 17, 2016

The cell’s recycling station, the lysosome, is coming to light as a cause for concern in a host of diseases,…

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Carnival of Disaster as Rio de Janeiro Looks at 50% Science Cuts

March 15, 2016

“The tumor had given a first hint of its existence in St. Louis, but it was in Rio de Janeiro…

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Cell News—Signaling in response to stiff breast tumor matrix

March 14, 2016

As breast tumors progress, the matrix surrounding the tumor cells becomes stiffer. How normal cells sense and respond to the…

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Efficient Thinking in the Midst of Forced Collaboration

March 11, 2016
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Collaboration has its place in scientific research, and always will. It is impossible to fathom a world in which individual…

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The “Lost” Paper of Gregor Mendel, the Patron Saint of Low Impact Scientific Publishing

March 10, 2016

  It is the ultimate consolation for every researcher who ever published a fabulous paper and got crickets. The paper,…

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Watching a Congressional Hearing Turn into a Witch Hunt

March 9, 2016

Last week at a congressional hearing entitled “Bioethics and Fetal Tissue” before the Select Investigatory Panel on Infant Lives, I…

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Cell News—Cytoskeleton Regulates Left-Right Asymmetry in Frogs

March 7, 2016

The heart, stomach, and liver are asymmetrical organs and so for normal development in an embryo, proper left-right patterning must occur…

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The Minority Report—When Simply Adding Numbers is Not Enough

March 4, 2016
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A few weeks ago, Gary McDowell reported on the “Increasing Diversity in a Changing Research Landscape” subgroup held at the…

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Fetal Tissue Vital to Medical Research, ASCB Tells Highly Polarized House Panel

March 3, 2016

Noted stem cell researcher and former chair of the ASCB Public Policy Committee Lawrence Goldstein told a politically charged Congressional…

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