BioPharma Dealmakers – a new destination for life sciences partnering

BioPharma Dealmakers brings together life sciences companies and individuals looking to identify and attract partners and dealmaking opportunities. With a quarterly magazine that is distributed in Nature Biotechnology and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, BioPharma Dealmakers provides insights into dealmaking trends and profiles from companies looking to partner – showcasing their pipeline products, technologies, therapeutic focus and partnering strategies.  Read more

Further experiments in peer review

There is a post on the Scholarly Kitchen blog this week that asks: “how can we improve the article review and submission process?” For all of us involved in scientific and scholarly publishing, it has long been accepted that peer review is necessary and beneficial in ensuring the quality of scientific communication. But it is also seen by many as an imperfect system: less efficient than it should be and sometimes frustratingly slow.  Read more

Book 6: The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine’s Deepest Mystery by George Johnson (2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books)

Book 6: The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery by George Johnson (2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books)

Cancer is a disease that inspires dread in many people. Most of us have had some experience of it or, at the very least, have read one of the myriad articles in the press about the latest cause or cure. George Johnson’s The Cancer Chronicles cuts through all of the noise and confusion, and presents a fascinating, often frightening, but ultimately empowering, account of the history of cancer and the human quest to understand it.  Read more

Book 5: Seven Elements that have Changed the World by John Browne (2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books)

Book 5: Seven Elements that have Changed the World by John Browne (2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books)

There are works of non-fiction that focus solely on the subject matter and then there are works of non-fiction that are just as much about the author’s views as about the topic at hand.  Seven Elements that have Changed the World falls squarely in the latter category.  Read more

Book 4: The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira (2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books)]

Book 4: The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira (2014 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books)]

Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, published nearly 100 years ago, explains the relationship between gravity, space and time. The theory provides “the key to understanding the history of the universe, origin of time, and the evolution of all the stars and galaxies in the cosmos,” according to Pedro G. Ferreira. His book, The Perfect Theory, tells the tale of how the theory was questioned, tested, modified and supported by a range of scientists. It is a book with gravity that pulls you in, describing what the theory has taught us so far, and what we may learn from it in the future.  Read more