Friday levity: 'Nature' discusses ghosts.

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One of the pleasures of thumbing through old issues of science journals is the opportunity to accidentally discover articles or letters tha...
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Chemical compounds from mouthwash may target cancer cells

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Apoptosis  or programmed cell death is one of the great truths of cellular life, an essential process that’s not only required to make wa...

Solomon Snyder on academic publishing: ask for adequate, not exhaustive, documentation

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Image: Corpus Callosum Renowned neuropharmacologist  Solomon Snyder  has a thought-provoking  take  on what seems to be one of the tw...
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First they came for the bloggers and I didn't speak up because...

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Here's a breath of fresh air. I keep on thinking about Planck's quote about scientific revolutions not occurring until old generati...
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ENCODE, Apple Maps and function: Why definitions matter

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ENCODE (Image: Discover Blogs) Remember that news-making ENCODE study with its claims that “80% of the genome is functional”? Remem...
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Uncle Syd's idea for funding new assistant professors

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I was leafing (virtually of course) through old issues of "Current Biology" when I came across a thought-provoking, slightly tong...

On toxic couches and carcinogens: Chemophobia, deconstructed.

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Last week I attended a great session on chemophobia at ScienceOnline 2013 headed by Carmen Drahl and Dr. Rubidium. The session emphasized ...
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Chemistry Nobel Prizes and second acts

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While having a discussion about Barry Sharpless with a fellow chemist the following random question occurred to me: How many chemists have ...
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Never a simple staple

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Stapled peptide. Image: Nature Carmen Drahl of C&EN has a pretty nice overview of what's happening in the world of stapled pe...

#Arseniclife reviews: Missing the forest for the trees

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In this year's ScienceOnline conference I co-moderated a productive session on peer review in which I pointed out how overly conservat...
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