While You Were at the Bench: Week 38
In case you were glued to your lab bench, here is a roundup of this week in science. United States science budgets will be cut by 8.2% starting January 2nd, 2013 unless Congress gets its act together...
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In case you were glued to your lab bench, here is a roundup of this week in science. The US House of Representatives fell 20 votes short of passing a bill that would allow foreign students with...
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...
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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 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 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...
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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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