Sarah Barnes addressing the Academy of Medical Sciences winter meeting in London
The Centre of the Cell in London’s East End is the world’s first science education centre to be housed in an operating biomedical research facility, an embryo-shaped pod suspended high above the Blizard Institute’s labs, part of Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). It is accessed via a bridge and offers children the chance to see scientists at work, watch videos projected onto the pod’s ceiling, and play games aimed at triggering their interest in cell biology and medical research. Continue reading
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The term “genome-editing” has become synonymous with CRISPR-Cas. But there’s more than one way to edit a genome, and each has its pros and cons.
To mark the 2017 Nature Awards for Mentoring in Science and the launch of our online mentoring resource at go.nature.com/mentoring, we’ve put together a podcast that reflects the importance of top quality mentoring and coaching to early career researchers.
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The current focus on single-cell biology reflects the growing awareness among life scientists that all cells are not alike.
In the genomics world, methods such as scRNA-seq and Drop-seq allow researchers to probe cellular heterogeneity at the genetic level using next-gen DNA sequencing. Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) does likewise for protein and metabolite studies.
No-one could fail to be moved by the video shared this week of a schoolboy crying over bullying. As adults we hope that we’ve moved away from school bullies. But in academia it seems that bullying is a persistent problem, with up to 42% of academics reporting some form of workplace bullying. In adult life, bullies rarely steal our lunch money or gum our hair. But they do steal our self-confidence, make us feel inadequate and question our work. My own experience with bullying has taught me how to recognise it, and what to do to overcome it in the workplace.
Recently the House of Representatives essentially voted to destroy graduate education in the United States. By taxing tuition waivers as income — and therefore treating their taxable income as two to three times the amount graduate students are actually paid — the Republican tax bill would effectively put graduate study outside of the reach of all but the independently wealthy. While the Senate version of the tax bill does not include this provision, it is far from certain what the final bill after the reconciliation process will look like.
