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Opinion: What’s in Your Food?

By | July 16, 2012

Are the “carcinogenic” chemicals that are produced when foods are cooked really cause for concern?

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Last Chance for 2012 Salary Survey

By | July 10, 2012

The Scientist has extended the deadline for our survey for another week. Take 5 minutes to help us determine the most current salary data for life scientists.

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Opinion: Biased Observers of Nature

By | July 9, 2012

Potential biases in scientific data collection and analysis should be minimized.

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Opinion: One Microbe’s 15 Minutes

By | July 3, 2012

The recently hyped amoeba-flagellate Collodictyon has many secrets to tell about early eukaryotic evolution.

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Opinion: Text Mining Medicine

By | June 25, 2012

Researchers should scour historic medical archives to discover knowledge that could inform today’s biomedical research and clinical practice.

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Opinion: On the Up and Up

By | June 20, 2012

An Amgen executive refutes accusations that the company published misleading results of its mid-90s clinical trial testing an anemia drug.

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Opinion: The Precarious Earth

By | June 18, 2012

People are currently driving the planet on a crash course with global stability. Something must be done.

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image: Opinion: What’s Wrong with COI?

Opinion: What’s Wrong with COI?

By | June 12, 2012

Financial “conflicts of interest” should not be so quickly condemned. Industry relationships are unequivocally beneficial.

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Opinion: Justice Delayed, Health Denied

By | June 4, 2012

African justice systems must change to help curb HIV and tuberculosis transmission in prisons.

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Opinion: Pressured to Commercialize

By | May 28, 2012

Is the push for science to save the still flailing economy a threat to scientific research?

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