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  • April 18, 2010
  • 12:51 PM
  • 383 views

Profile: Gianpaolo Rando

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Scientist and blogger Gianpaolo Rando is BioData Blogs Featured Scientist for the month of April.

Tell us about your first encounter with science
I was 12: I was a strong reader and a loyal fellow of the civic library. Books being the main source of my knowledge, I thought everything in the world had already been discovered. At the beginning of the school year, my new science teacher introduced a small aquarium to the classroom. He put in a mug full of water from a waterhole and asked the cl........ Read more »

  • February 22, 2010
  • 04:26 AM
  • 360 views

Building a Motivated Research Group

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Uri Alon, a PI in the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, recently published an article in Molecular Cell where he discusses how to build a motivated research group.

Motivation in a research group is very important as that is the way that work actually gets done. Its not enough to go uninspired through the motions and conduct experiments because if it doesn’t work out – what is going to push you to keep trying? I personally have spoken to many involved in research asking what i........ Read more »

  • February 7, 2010
  • 06:00 AM
  • 469 views

Revisiting 'Autism, Vaccines, and The Oprah Effect'

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

In June I commented on the autism - vaccine controversy and the role that Oprah had in promoting it. Seven moths later, I am revisiting this issue. 12 years ago, Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues first published his findings in The Lancet providing ‘evidence’ suggesting they had tracked down a shocking cause of autism – that being the MMR Vaccine. Last week The Lancet published a retraction of Wakefield’s paper stating that “it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper........ Read more »

  • January 11, 2010
  • 01:07 PM
  • 465 views

Laboratory Notebooks: A thing of the past?

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Laboratory notebooks are essential for reproducing experiments. For years we have been raised in our labs knowing that every action must be written down in our lab notebook.... Read more »

  • January 7, 2010
  • 08:28 AM
  • 422 views

Science News: Week of January 3, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of January 3, 2009.... Read more »

  • October 15, 2009
  • 07:01 AM
  • 477 views

Profile: Tora Smulders-Srinivasan

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

All she needed to know to fall in love with molecular biology, Dr. Tora Smulders-Srinivasan learned at 15 years old, in her tenth grade biology class. While she had been aware of basic hereditary concepts, Tora hadn’t been exposed to DNA, genetics, RNA, translation, or transcription until then. In that classroom, Tora says, she fell in love. “I loved the whole idea of DNA. The fact that there is a molecule that transfers between generations – and that is what sets up the whole organism. I........ Read more »

  • October 15, 2009
  • 06:55 AM
  • 444 views

Science News: Week of October 11, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of October 11, 2009.... Read more »

Yamamoto, S., Humle, T., & Tanaka, M. (2009) Chimpanzees Help Each Other upon Request. PLoS ONE, 4(10). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007416  

  • October 8, 2009
  • 10:00 AM
  • 404 views

Science News: Week of October 4, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of October 4, 2009.... Read more »

Brusatte, S., Carr, T., Erickson, G., Bever, G., & Norell, M. (2009) A long-snouted, multihorned tyrannosaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906911106  

Parks, J., Guo, H., Momany, C., Liang, L., Miller, S., Summers, A., & Smith, J. (2009) Mechanism of Hg−C Protonolysis in the Organomercurial Lyase MerB. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 131(37), 13278-13285. DOI: 10.1021/ja9016123  

  • October 1, 2009
  • 09:18 AM
  • 461 views

Science News: Week of September 27, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 27, 2009.... Read more »

  • September 24, 2009
  • 07:43 AM
  • 476 views

Science News: Week of September 20, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 20, 2009.... Read more »

  • September 17, 2009
  • 07:06 AM
  • 654 views

Science News: Week of September 13, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 13, 2009.... Read more »

  • September 11, 2009
  • 06:00 AM
  • 477 views

Science News: Week of September 6, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of September 6, 2009.... Read more »

Schnuelle P, Gottmann U, Hoeger S, Boesebeck D, Lauchart W, Weiss C, Fischereder M, Jauch KW, Heemann U, Zeier M.... (2009) Effects of donor pretreatment with dopamine on graft function after kidney transplantation: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 302(10), 1067-75. PMID: 19738091  

Münch, T., da Silveira, R., Siegert, S., Viney, T., Awatramani, G., & Roska, B. (2009) Approach sensitivity in the retina processed by a multifunctional neural circuit. Nature Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2389  

Childs, R., Palma, A., Wharton, S., Matrosovich, T., Liu, Y., Chai, W., Campanero-Rhodes, M., Zhang, Y., Eickmann, M., Kiso, M.... (2009) Receptor-binding specificity of pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus determined by carbohydrate microarray. Nature Biotechnology, 27(9), 797-799. DOI: 10.1038/nbt0909-797  

  • September 3, 2009
  • 09:07 AM
  • 396 views

Science News: Week of August 30, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of August 30, 2009.... Read more »

Maehr, R., Chen, S., Snitow, M., Ludwig, T., Yagasaki, L., Goland, R., Leibel, R., & Melton, D. (2009) Generation of pluripotent stem cells from patients with type 1 diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906894106  

Reversade, B., Escande-Beillard, N., Dimopoulou, A., Fischer, B., Chng, S., Li, Y., Shboul, M., Tham, P., Kayserili, H., Al-Gazali, L.... (2009) Mutations in PYCR1 cause cutis laxa with progeroid features. Nature Genetics. DOI: 10.1038/ng.413  

Siripattarapravat, K., Pinmee, B., Venta, P., Chang, C., & Cibelli, J. (2009) Somatic cell nuclear transfer in zebrafish. Nature Methods. DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1369  

  • August 30, 2009
  • 04:35 AM
  • 527 views

Profile: Christie Wilcox

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Christie Wilcox is now passionate toward conservation biology, although she didn’t originally start off that way. While she always had an affinity to nature and animals, she didn’t realize that she wanted to be a biologist until she “stumbled” upon it in college. “When I’m at the beach and everyone is running away from jellyfish, I get excited and run up closer to check it out!”... Read more »

  • August 27, 2009
  • 09:31 AM
  • 379 views

Science News: Week of August 23, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of August 23, 2009.... Read more »

Cziko, A., McCann, C., Howlett, I., Barbee, S., Duncan, R., Luedemann, R., Zarnescu, D., Zinsmaier, K., Parker, R., & Ramaswami, M. (2009) Genetic Modifiers of dFMR1 Encode RNA Granule Components in Drosophila. Genetics, 182(4), 1051-1060. DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.103234  

Tachibana, M., Sparman, M., Sritanaudomchai, H., Ma, H., Clepper, L., Woodward, J., Li, Y., Ramsey, C., Kolotushkina, O., & Mitalipov, S. (2009) Mitochondrial gene replacement in primate offspring and embryonic stem cells. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature08368  

  • August 25, 2009
  • 06:46 AM
  • 556 views

How Do You Manage Your Research Data?

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

In a survey commissioned by BioData, 94 researchers from 74 institutions worldwide were asked a series of questions regarding their management of research data. The survey’s purpose was to learn about and prove the need for knowledge management systems in academic research. 80% of the researchers surveyed believe their labs are not run efficiently.... Read more »

  • August 20, 2009
  • 05:47 AM
  • 420 views

Science News: Week of August 16, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of August 16, 2009.... Read more »

Frumkin, D., Wasserstrom, A., Davidson, A., & Grafit, A. (2009) Authentication of forensic DNA samples. Forensic Science International: Genetics. DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2009.06.009  

Loui, P., Alsop, D., & Schlaug, G. (2009) Tone Deafness: A New Disconnection Syndrome?. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(33), 10215-10220. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1701-09.2009  

Li, M., Chen, W., Papadopoulos, N., Goodman, S., Bjerregaard, N., Laurberg, S., Levin, B., Juhl, H., Arber, N., Moinova, H.... (2009) Sensitive digital quantification of DNA methylation in clinical samples. Nature Biotechnology. DOI: 10.1038/nbt.1559  

Hattori, Y., Nagai, K., Furukawa, S., Song, X., Kawano, R., Sakakibara, H., Wu, J., Matsumoto, T., Yoshimura, A., Kitano, H.... (2009) The ethylene response factors SNORKEL1 and SNORKEL2 allow rice to adapt to deep water. Nature, 460(7258), 1026-1030. DOI: 10.1038/nature08258  

  • August 13, 2009
  • 11:00 AM
  • 382 views

Science News: Week of August 9, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of August 9, 2009.... Read more »

Smith, M., Egerdie, B., Toriz, N., Feldman, R., Tammela, T., Saad, F., Heracek, J., Szwedowski, M., Ke, C., Kupic, A.... (2009) Denosumab in Men Receiving Androgen-Deprivation Therapy for Prostate Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0809003  

Cummings, S., Martin, J., McClung, M., Siris, E., Eastell, R., Reid, I., Delmas, P., Zoog, H., Austin, M., Wang, A.... (2009) Denosumab for Prevention of Fractures in Postmenopausal Women with Osteoporosis. New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0809493  

  • August 6, 2009
  • 06:56 AM
  • 592 views

Science News: Week of August 2, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of August 2, 2009.... Read more »

Paaijmans, K., Read, A., & Thomas, M. (2009) Understanding the link between malaria risk and climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903423106  

Plantier, J., Leoz, M., Dickerson, J., De Oliveira, F., Cordonnier, F., Lemée, V., Damond, F., Robertson, D., & Simon, F. (2009) A new human immunodeficiency virus derived from gorillas. Nature Medicine. DOI: 10.1038/nm.2016  

Xu, Z., Gong, Q., Xia, B., Groves, B., Zimmermann, M., Mugler, C., Mu, D., Matsumoto, B., Seaman, M., & Ma, D. (2009) A role of histone H3 lysine 4 methyltransferase components in endosomal trafficking. The Journal of Cell Biology. DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200902146  

Gregory, T., Andrews, C., McGuire, J., & Witt, C. (2009) The smallest avian genomes are found in hummingbirds. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1004  

  • July 30, 2009
  • 08:02 AM
  • 539 views

Science News: Week of July 26, 2009

by Susan Steinhardt in BioData Blogs

Our weekly compilation of science news for the week of July 26, 2009.... Read more »

Orso, G., Pendin, D., Liu, S., Tosetto, J., Moss, T., Faust, J., Micaroni, M., Egorova, A., Martinuzzi, A., McNew, J.... (2009) Homotypic fusion of ER membranes requires the dynamin-like GTPase Atlastin. Nature. DOI: 10.1038/nature08280  

Page, R., Ambady, S., Holmes, W., Vilner, L., Kole, D., Kashpur, O., Huntress, V., Vojtic, I., Whitton, H., & Dominko, T. (2009) Induction of Stem Cell Gene Expression in Adult Human Fibroblasts without Transgenes. Cloning and Stem Cells, 2147483647. DOI: 10.1089/clo.2009.0015  

Gentleman, E., Swain, R., Evans, N., Boonrungsiman, S., Jell, G., Ball, M., Shean, T., Oyen, M., Porter, A., & Stevens, M. (2009) Comparative materials differences revealed in engineered bone as a function of cell-specific differentiation. Nature Materials. DOI: 10.1038/nmat2505  

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