News: [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 09:07 PM GMT] For Bruce Alberts, the week Science announced he would be the journal's new chief editor was, decidedly, "hectic." Already, "I've got a lot of people sending me advice on ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 20th December 2007 04:00 PM GMT] In case you have never attended an open house workshop at the NIH's Center for Scientific Review, in which people who participate in NIH peer review gather to discuss how the process is going and could improve, here's how it typically ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 18th December 2007 04:13 AM GMT] Bruce Alberts' colleagues are -- not surprisingly -- celebrating his decision to be the 18th editor-in-chief of Science, which the journal announced Monday (December 17).
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News: [Entry posted at 17th December 2007 03:13 PM GMT] I just received a call from Science - the new editor in chief is Bruce Alberts. The journal made him the offer, and he accepted over the weekend.
Alberts will assume his duties March 1. Current editor-in-chief Don Kennedy will remain in the ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 11th December 2007 10:10 PM GMT] There's an interesting "P.S." to the story of James Watson's early retirement after public outcry when he told a UK newspaper that he believed people of African ancestry were less intelligent - he has 16 times more genes of African ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 09:50 PM GMT] I absolutely cannot resist blogging about this - the web site "Oddee," which describes itself as a "blog on the oddities of our world," has listed the 10 most bizarre scientific ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 4th December 2007 10:54 PM GMT] "I guess it must be two o'clock." NSF's Eve Barak was standing at a podium looking out at a large room that was only about one-fifth full. It was day 3 (December 3) of the American Society for Cell Biology's annual meeting, and ... Click to continue
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 08:53 PM GMT] This morning, a group of panelists issued a call to action to a standing-room-only crowd at the American Society for Cell Biology's 47th Annual Meeting: Scientists must get involved in policy issues, and they have to start now.
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News: [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 04:20 PM GMT] The $1 billion life sciences initiative posed by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is dealing with some scrutiny lately. The new president of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council faces a ... Click to continue
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