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15 Feb 2012 | 11:45 GMT

Does a new treatment for leukemia herald a new era in drug discovery?

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Does a new treatment for leukemia herald a new era in drug discovery?

Brent R. Stockwell, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences and of Chemistry at Columbia University, an Early Career Scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and author of The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines, which was called “critical reading” by Robert Bazell, chief science correspondent at NBC News and “an absolute page-turner” that manages to “distill a complex, changing field into a beautifully written, well-crafted story” by Siddhartha Mukherjee, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.  Read more

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28 Dec 2011 | 10:00 GMT

The War on Cancer…Phobia

Posted by Soapbox Science Editor | Categories: Philosophy or Psychology or Ethics, Science around the world

The War on Cancer…Phobia

David Ropeik is an international consultant in risk perception and risk communication, and an Instructor in the Environmental Management Program at the Harvard University Extension School. He is the author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match the Facts and principal co-author of RISK A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Really Safe and What’s Really Dangerous in the World Around You. He writes the blog Risk; Reason and Reality at Big Think.com and also writes for Huffington Post,  Psychology Today,  and Scientific American.  Read more

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26 Oct 2011 | 10:00 GMT

Bioinformatics what is it and how it can bring prehistory to life?

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Bioinformatics what is it and how it can bring prehistory to life?

Ivan Karabaliev joined Eagle Genomics located at the Babraham Research Centre in Cambridge, UK, a bit more than a year ago and has been discovering the essence of bioinformatics. Coming from a business marketing background, Ivan likes to explain the complex world of bioinformatics to new audiences and the general public. Explained in just one sentence, bioinformatics is the science of managing, analysing, storing and merging biological data (DNA sequences, proteins, etc.) using advanced computing techniques. Put another way, it is the application of computer science and information technologies to solve biological questions. Simple questions include asking what a specific  … Read more

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12 Oct 2011 | 10:00 GMT

Engineering improvements in surgical technologies

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Engineering improvements in surgical technologies

Dr Pete Culmer is a Senior Translational Research Fellow in the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds (UK). He has a background in medical engineering, with a PhD and subsequent post-doc work developing technology for rehabilitation assessments and interventions. He was awarded his current position, funded by the Biomedical Health Research Centre (BHRC), in 2010 and works with a growing team of researchers including engineers, surgeons and psychologists, conducting research in Surgical Technologies._ I’m at a large white console that wouldn’t be out of place in a games arcade, staring into a 3D display and carefully manoeuvring two hand-held  … Read more

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15 Jun 2011 | 10:00 GMT

Making science make sense

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Making science make sense

This week’s guest blogger is Laura Blackburn who works as a Scientific Communications Officer at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute (CRI). After a PhD in Zoology, she dabbled in science writing, first as an intern at Science, then as the News and Views Editor at the Journal of Experimental Biology. She joined the CRI in 2007 where she writes and edits articles on their research in print and online, organises scientific meetings and acts as a coordinator for internal and external communications. It’s just after lunch on a Wednesday and my brain is tired. A background in Zoology  … Read more

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