Meet This Issue's Contributors
December 5, 2005
was born in Tel Aviv and came to the United States in 1975.
December 5, 2005
was born in Tel Aviv and came to the United States in 1975.
| December 5, 2005
we discuss the issues that have had an impact on infrastructure and business in the life sciences. As ever, science marches on.
| November 21, 2005
The last time I wrote about vaccines was two years ago – November 17, 2003, to be precise.1 That editorial crackled with frustration about the status of the most effective health intervention that has ever been invented:"Vaccines are unattractive targets for industry, underappreciated from the public health perspective, underfunded by basic research organizations, and treated with suspicion by the public."It's a pleasure to report that, two years later, there are the beginnings of a remark
| November 7, 2005
Neuroscience is intellectually the broadest and most taxing field in life sciences, and technologically it is the most challenging.
| October 24, 2005
I hadn't realized until recently that the United States is in the grip of a mania.
| October 10, 2005
It used to be that the record of scientific work was complete when it was all published in journals.
| September 26, 2005
How do scientists communicate, with one another and with the public?
| September 12, 2005
Whatever the entertainment and artistic merits of the movie "The Constant Gardener," released at the end of last month, the pharmaceutical industry could do without it.
| August 29, 2005
In 1986, the year in which the automated DNA sequencer was invented, GenBank held a scant 9.6 million bases.
| August 1, 2005
The life sciences have been slow to embrace blogging.