Broad Institute Scientist Prevails in Epic Patent Fight Over CRISPR
Doudna and Berkeley may appeal the ruling in favor of MIT and Harvard. There is big money at stake.
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BioRxiv: A Pre-print Repository for Life Sciences
BioRxiv is a pre-print repository for life science researchers who can now easily share their unpublished work with the research community.
110 Million for New Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Projects
The Research Council of Norway is awarding funding to six new projects under the new Centre for Digital Life Norway, which will bring the total number of projects associated with the centre to 12.
The Robotic Researchers
This episode we spoke to Max Hodak Founder and CEO of Transcriptic, a Menlo Park based biotech company offering a robotic solution to research in the life sciences.
The Impact of Postdoctoral Training on Early Careers in Biomedicine
The Impact of Postdoctoral Training on Early Careers in Biomedicine
While postdocs are necessary for entry into tenure-track jobs, they do not enhance salaries in other job sectors over time.
Spraying RNA On Plants Silences A Gene and Protects From Viruses
The technique could be faster and more versatile than developing GMO crops from scratch.
Top Ten Medical Research Issues and Trends to Watch in 2017
2016 will go down as a year that taught us to question our assumptions. The election of Donald Trump, an outcome
Preparing for the 21st Century Biomedical Research Job Market
Using Census Data to Inform Policy and Career Decision-Making
The Health Data Conundrum
There's quite a paradox when it comes to our health data. Most of us still cannot readily look at it, but there’s been an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information. By Eric Topol.
The New Face of US Science
Gary McDowell, Misty Heggeness and colleagues present census data showing how the biomedical workforce is fundamentally different to those of past generations – academia should study the trends, and adapt.
SciLite
A platform for displaying text-mined annotations as a means to link research articles with biological data
Medicine at a Turning Point
The digital transformation of healthcare is creating major opportunities to better understand disease and effective therapies. But it also poses ethical and legal challenges. A conference organized by the Health Ethics and Policy Lab at UZH addressed some of the current issues.
Big Biology Projects Warm up to Preprints
Consortium backed by US NIH is first major biology programme to mandate online publication of results ahead of peer review.
TrialsTracker
A tool was produced that identifies all completed trials from clinicaltrials.gov, searches for results in the clinicaltrials.gov registry and on PubMed, and presents summary statistics for each sponsor online. Since Jan 2006, trial sponsors included in our dataset have completed 25,927 eligible trials, of which 11,714 (45.2%) have failed to make results available.
Congress Poised to Pass Sweeping Biomedical Innovation Bill
Congress is poised to approve a massive piece of legislation that would provide the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with $4.8 billion over the next decade for a set of research initiatives, including brain and cancer research and efforts to develop so-called precision medicine treatments that are tailored to an individual’s genetic makeup.
Theranos Whistleblower Shook the Company—And His Family
Tyler Shultz says he wanted to shield reputation of former Secretary of State George Shultz, a Theranos director; $400,000 in legal fees
CRISPR Gene-Editing Tested in a Person for the First Time
The move by Chinese scientists could spark a biomedical duel between China and the United States.
Tracker Flags Up Failures to Report Clinical Trials
Computerized search of trial registry lists worst offenders.
'Any Idiot Can Do It.'
Genome editor CRISPR could put mutant mice in everyone's reach
Young Scientists Ditch Postdocs for Biotech Start-ups
Many biologists are founding their own firms as venture capitalists show increased interest in science.
BioStudies, The Data Bento Box
A new database at EMBL-EBI gives a home to all of the data supporting a study.
Susan Lindquist, Accomplished and Beloved Scientist, Has Died at Age 67
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research is a non-profit, independent research and educational institution known as a world leader in biomedical research.
The Thrill of Defeat
What Francis Crick and Sydney Brenner taught me about being scooped, by Bob Goldstein
Biology Preprints Over Time: An Update
While the practice of preprinting in the life sciences is not completely new, it has grown dramatically over the past few years.
Two Major California Research Institutes Will Merge
Scripps and Calibr set to join forces
BioBlocks: Programming Protocols in Biology Made Easier
BioBlocks is an open-source web-based visual development environment for describing and execute experimental protocols on local robotic platforms or remotely i.e. in the cloud. It aims to serve as a 'de facto' open standard for programming protocols in Biology.
There’s Such a Thing as Too Much Neuroscience
We need both neuroscience and clinical research.
Realising the Health Benefits of Sharing Data
Accessible data are not enough. We need to invest in systems that make the information useful, say Elizabeth Pisani and colleagues.
OpenTrials Launches Beta Version
Open Knowledge International is delighted to announce the launch of the public preview beta version of OpenTrials at a panel session on ‘Fostering Open Science in Global Health’.
Nobel honors discoveries on how cells eat themselves
Cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi becomes sole winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Phsyiology or Medicine for his work on autophagy
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