Integrin Phosphorylation as an Off Switch for Integrin Activation
A tiny modification can make a big difference in proteins involved in cell adhesion and migration.Posted on December 31, 2007 3:30 PM • 0 Comments •
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Ah, So That's How They Did It!
The first edition of the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) will be released at 11:00 pm EST tonight.Posted on November 30, 2006 5:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Good News and Bad News for Open Access Publishing
Bad: PubMed Central isn't looking too hot. Good: UK research councils are starting to make public access manditory.Posted on July 11, 2006 7:45 AM • 0 Comments •
Progress of Stem Cell Bill, and Its Media Coverage, Still Plagued by Problems
On the 29th of June, the Senate finally announced an upcoming vote on HR 810, a bill which would overturn President Bush's current prohibitions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The progress of the bill still faces many hurdles, and a recent article in the journal Science did little to publicize them and in fact contained several problematic and even inaccurate statements.Posted on July 8, 2006 8:00 PM • 1 Comments •
A Natural Conflict of Interest as Nature Criticizes PLoS
Today's issue of Nature includes a particularly damning news story about the financial troubles facing the Public Library of Science, a publisher of several prestigious open access journals. In the article, Nature describes PLoS's difficulties and heavily stresses its continued...Posted on June 22, 2006 7:55 AM • 2 Comments •
Cell Jumps on the Interactive Bandwagon
Nature started it with its recently begun open peer review trial, and PLoS got on board with its own announcement of a new interactive journal, PLoS ONE. Now, The Daily Transcript reports that Cell has also joined the latest trend...Posted on June 21, 2006 6:30 PM • 2 Comments •
From the Archives: Science Gets Googly
In February, Nature magazine reported that some researchers were pushing to use the Google PageRank technology to rate scientific journals instead of using the traditional impact factor system. Since the 2005 journal impact factors were recently released, I thought now would be a good time to explore this issue again.Posted on June 17, 2006 2:50 PM • 0 Comments •
PLoS Takes On Science and Nature... and Blogs All About It!
Through its recently announced interdisciplinary journal PLoS ONE, the Public Library of Science appears poised to compete directly with the two leading scientific journals, Science and Nature. Now comes news that PLoS has started a series of blogs to promote this endeavor.Posted on June 14, 2006 7:20 PM • 2 Comments •
From the Archives: Open Access and the Democratization of Science
In May, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 to the US Senate, which would require free public access to most government-funded research within six months of the research's publication. This post (from the archives) explores this piece of legislation and the issue of open access in depth.Posted on June 12, 2006 7:55 AM • 4 Comments •
Nature Lets It All Hang Out Through Open Peer Review
One of the fundamental principles of modern science, as well as other academic pursuits, is peer review. However, it's not a perfect system, and today's issue of Nature announced its own experiment in science--or democracy--by opening up the peer review process to all interested in participating and giving authors of submitting their papers to an open and public peer review process to take place online.Posted on June 8, 2006 10:51 PM • 4 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
