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March 2007
What if humans were built to last? We asked several experts to come up with fixes for the things that go wrong as we age. See what they came up with. |
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Confused by retractions, expressions of concern, and editors' warnings? You're not the only one. ANDREA GAWRYLEWSKI compiled a handy glossary of all of those terms. |
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A GRAND UNIFYING THEORY FOR BIOLOGY? BOB GRANT traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico to meet two ecologists and a physicist who are honing a theory with the potential to unify all of biology. Can they extend its reach while fending off critics? |
RELATED: A metabolic theory for everything Audio Slideshow: Discussing Metabolic Theory |
BEST PLACES TO WORK FOR POSTDOCS, 2007 Where should you postdoc? Find out where institutions - including your own - ranked in our annual survey. For the first time ever, a company made our top 15. | RELATED: Top 40 North American institutions Top 15 North American institutions Industry postdocs make the grade |
  
The trouble with tech transfer; Nuffield misses an opportunity EDITORIAL Bucking the zeitgeist: What happened when two biologists and a physicist tried to create a grand unifying theory of biology? COLUMNS A hostile environment for documents: Why are Environmental Protection Agency libraries being decimated? We die too soon: Wise Methuselahs could save the world. Notebook The Agenda; Cartoon funds research (Slideshow: A devil of a disease); A biotech contrarian; Mummies’ parasites; A Nobelist’s QVC debut; The self-experimenter Foundations Len Hayflick's Leitz inverted microscope, circa 1958 Profiles Genizon's Tim Keith's cautious but rigorous approach makes it possible for companies to separate real data in gene association studies from noise. UC Berkeley's Mike
Levine almost became a physician. Lucky for Drosophila research,
he didn't. Scientist to Watch: How Fabrizio Chiti's research career took off after he succumbed to a persistent request from his supervisor. The Literature Hot Paper: Isotope labeling and mass spectrometry unite to track proteome dynamics Old mice are hard to replicate Lab Tools What can systems biology do for you? Four computational modeling strategies and the data that build them. How It Works: Surface plasmon resonance CAREERS Going from science to sales: Thinking about becoming a sales rep? Here's what you can expect. |
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