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10 + 1 PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors)

faithmj wrote 6 days ago: Here’s a concise list of tips on using PubMed from Jacqueline Limpens, Clinical Librarian and … more →

Tags: Databases, Information Retrieval, PubMed

10 + 1 PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors)

faithmj wrote 6 days ago: Here’s a concise list of tips on using PubMed from Jacqueline Limpens, Clinical Librarian and … more →

Tags: Databases, PubMed, Information Retrieval

10 + 1 PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors)

faithmj wrote 6 days ago: Here’s a concise list of tips on using PubMed from Jacqueline Limpens, Clinical Librarian and … more →

Tags: Databases, Information Retrieval, PubMed

10 + 1 PubMed Tips for Residents (and their Instructors)

faithmj wrote 6 days ago: Here’s a concise list of tips on using PubMed from Jacqueline Limpens, Clinical Librarian and … more →

Tags: Databases, PubMed, Information Retrieval

A Louder Voice - Pet to Pasture

mpaynknoper wrote 1 month ago: Recently I’ve become acquainted with a variety of people that share an interest in exposing th … more →

Tags: Advocacy, Agriculture, Animal Rights, Farmer, farming, Erica Saunders, farm, Farm Sanctuary, HSUS

Retraction. I have seen a nanobot, it's a bacteria

sciphu wrote 2 months ago: I wrote this previous post complaining that I had not seen biomedical nanobots in spite of predicti … more →

Tags: bacteria

Message From the Editor: Economic Over-Stimulation?1 comment

annalsofneurology wrote 2 months ago: The news of additional NIH funding in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) has been gre … more →

Tags: Message from the editor, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, arra, economic stimulus package, NIH funding

"No alternative to Primates in scientifical research", claims EU report

reportingtheworldover wrote 3 months ago: European Union’s Directorate General Environment (DG ENV) is currently revising Directive 86/6 … more →

Tags: european union, technology, News, non-huma primates

Anyone Know if This is True?5 comments

thegrip wrote 3 months ago: I’ve never paid too much attention to the whole PETA/animal testing/sheep sheering controversy … more →

Tags: All about nothing, Animal Research, animals, gay max RIP, killing animals, PETA, Pets

Who stole the curiosity?2 comments

niewiap wrote 3 months ago: I am just finishing the second of a duo of fantastic books about science and scientists. The first o … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Science, Conduct of science, Literature, NIH, science funding, Scientific Curiosity, Stephen Levitt, Richard Feynman, hardships of lab work

A case against intellectual propety in pharmaceutical industry2 comments

niewiap wrote 3 months ago: I have just stumbled upon a book called “Against Intellectual Monopoly” by Michele Boldr … more →

Tags: Geeky stuff, open access, bad science, Big Pharma, David K. Levine, Economics, intellectual monopoly, Intellectual Property, IP

Sage – What is Merck’s freebie really all about?4 comments

niewiap wrote 3 months ago: I was kind of hoping I would be able to get a little vacation away from Open Access, but it seems to … more →

Tags: Computers in science, New and cool in biomed, open access, bioinformatics, Eric Schadt, John Wilbanks, Merck, Rosetta Inpharmatics, Sage

Obama Ends Ban On Stem Cell Research

BGR wrote 3 months ago: President Barack Obama on Monday ended an eight-year ban on new embryonic stem cell research, disma … more →

Tags: Barbados, Life, News, People, Science & Nature, obama, Stem Cell Research

"Naturally Obsessed": A Graduate Student's Perspective

Miriam Gordon wrote 4 months ago: Last night, at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, I attended a screening of a wonderful docu … more →

Tags: Biology, Science, PhD

Promises and obstacles of open access science - Thus Spake John Wilbanks

niewiap wrote 4 months ago: Anyone knows who John Wilbanks is? Well, I just found out. Recently a post on slashdot caught my at … more →

Tags: Computers in science, Geeky stuff, Grantsmanship and biomedical writing, Philosophy of Science, Plos, John Wilbanks, open access, BioMed Central, Semantic Web

Primum non nocere!

niewiap wrote 4 months ago: The Web is rife with news stories regarding a paper just published in PLOS Medicine about a benign t … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Science, Conduct of science, New and cool in biomed, Science, Ataxia Telangiectasia, tumor, PLoS Medicine, Stem Cell Research, Stem Cell

Lucky Puppies, Monkeys, Mice and Others: Two Examples of Pro-Vivisection Propaganda Targeting Children2 comments

pdxmogo wrote 4 months ago: My boss, Zoe Weil, recently wrote two blog posts about examples of pro-vivisection propaganda target … more →

Tags: animal protection, US Policy, accurate information, Propaganda, Animal Experimentation, Children, Humane Education, Critical Thinking, Vivisection

Why I (no longer?) hate the phrase "underrepresented minorities"

niewiap wrote 4 months ago: I used to cringe with disgust whenever I heard of the so called “underrepresented minorities … more →

Tags: Philosophy of Science, Health Policy, underrepresented, minority, poverty, black, Latino, Discrimination, reverse discrimination

In defense of the fishing expedition

niewiap wrote 4 months ago: When coming back from a conference recently, I had an interesting conversation with my PI about gran … more →

Tags: Conduct of science, Grantsmanship and biomedical writing, Science, Grantsmanship, NIH, exploratory science, Microarrays, Biomedical Science, science funding


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