Ok,
I was wrong. When GC said: “The GET Conference 2010 marks the last opportunity in history to gather a majority of individuals in the world with public personal genome sequences in a single venue,”
I said:
“That is a pretty heady statement by Dr. Church. Does he really think 2010 will be the year that [...]
KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL
March 2010 Volume 77 Number 6, pp 477 – 560
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I had an interesting discussion yesterday afternoon with the students on the final year module I’m teaching. In addition to lectures, tutorials, online notes and all the materials on the VLE, I’ve been drip feeding them extra virology tidbits relevant to the lecture topics via the virology tag on MicrobiologyBytes and the MicrobiologyBytes Facebook [...]
Now that a month has gone by, I scraped some data via the friendfeed api to see how our first year students (n = 137) are getting on with their friendfolios.
Rather than total activity (including status updates), I looked at the level of interactivity via the number of comments and likes. The numbers of [...]
In a 1991 study of physicians published in the New England Journal of Medicine:99% of 465 physicians surveyed had requests from family members for medical advice, diagnosis and treatment.
Family members included spouses, children, parents, siblings, nieces, nephews, in-laws, aunts, uncles and cousins. Eighty-three percent of physicians had prescribed medication for a family member, 80% had [...]
Abstract:Digital information and communication technologies (ICTs) are novelty tools that can be used to facilitate broader involvement of citizens in the discussions about science. The same tools can be used to reinforce the traditional top-down model of science communication. Empirical investigations of particular technologies can help to understand how these tools are used in the [...]
I’m not much of a winter sports fan, but when the Winter Olympics rolls around, I find myself watching speed skating and ski cross and skeleton and figure skating. And that’s how I found myself watching the exciting USA-Canada hockey game on Sunday.
What does this have to do with science fiction? It an excuse [...]
Welcome to the FindAPhD weekly Newsletter. Listed below are the latest research projects to be advertised on FindAPhD.com.
University of BirminghamArtificial Intelligence Approaches to Figurative Language
University of BirminghamNew Strategies for Natural Product Synthesis
University of BirminghamNovel Transformations for the Synthesis of Nitrogen Heterocycles
Cardiff UniversityPRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIPS: Demand management through smart meters
University of SheffieldIdentification and [...]
It’s been a long time since I sat down and read an instruction manual cover to cover.
OK, I have never read an instruction manual cover to cover. This is partly due to the fact that I have a Y chromosome, but recently, it has a lot more to do with Web 2.0, the ethos [...]
Your February 2010 Special Edition of the RSCI Newsletter is here!
In this Newsletter we cover:
THE EMBRYONIC STEM CELL HOAX:
A HISTORY OF THE GERON SCANDAL
For six years, the American people’s understanding of stem cells has been overwhelmed by rampant misinformation and deception. We were led to believe the future of medicine lies in Embryonic [...]