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Life Sciences Salary Survey 2011
Jef Akst and Edyta Zielinska | Dec 1, 2011 | 10+ min read
US salaries are starting to recover after last year’s survey recorded the first-ever drop.
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Engineering the Microbiome: CRISPR Leads the Way
Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, PhD | Mar 15, 2024 | 10+ min read
Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.
Reveling in the Revealed
Kelly Rae Chi | Jan 1, 2016 | 7 min read
A growing toolbox for surveying the activity of entire genomes
Notebook
The Scientist Staff | Apr 28, 1996 | 8 min read
Average full-time salaries in academia for 1995-96 rose more rapidly than the Consumer Price Index for the third consecutive year, according to a newly released survey by the Washington, D.C.-based American Association of University Professors. This year's edition of the annual study found that average faculty pay increased 2.9 percent, or 0.4 percent above the 2.5 percent inflation rate. However, Daniel S. Hamermesh, author of the survey report, cautioned in his text (Academe, 82[2]:14-108, Ma
Geography Helps Epidemiologists To Investigate Spread Of Disease
James Kling | Jul 20, 1997 | 8 min read
'CLEAR AWARENESS': Keith Clark says epidemiologists have recongized the importance of geography in studying infectious diseases. Adventurers of the 18th and 19th centuries in search of gold and new trade routes were not the only ones to value a good map: Early epidemiologists inspected the lay of the land in attempts to discern the causes and spread of diseases. But as unexplored frontiers slowly disappeared, geography came to be taken for granted. In fact, the number of classic epidemiology p
Push to Address Long-Standing Challenges for Parents in STEMM
Amanda Heidt | Jul 21, 2021 | 9 min read
The organizers behind a Mothers in Science conference say that it’s time academia provide more support to researchers who are pregnant or looking after children.
Hands-On Power
Mike May | Nov 16, 2003 | 6 min read
Courtesy of Mike Curtis  TAG, YOU'RE SICK! School children learn about communicable diseases with handheld computers and a program called Cooties. In the 1830s, Charles Darwin used a pen and paper to document finches and other fauna and flora in the Galápagos Islands. For the next century and a half, most scientists relied on the same tools to take notes or collect data. Today, Dave Anderson, associate professor of biology at Wake Forest University, follows in Darwin's footsteps--
Best Places to Work 2006: Academia
Maria W. Anderson with Juhi Yajnik | Oct 1, 2006 | 6 min read
Best Places to Work 2006: Academia © JENNIFER TRENCHARD © THOMAS ROPKE/CORBIS Our annual survey picks the 40 best academic institutions. See where yours - or the one you're considering moving to - fared. Assistant publisher MARIA W. ANDERSON highlights trends and zeroes in on what made top schools great. By Maria W. Anderson, with reporting by Juhi Yajnik Related Articles: Best Places to Work Survey Index Best Places to Work in Academia 2006
Frontlines
Hal Cohen | Feb 17, 2002 | 5 min read
New evidence points to brain trauma as an environmental risk factor for Alzheimer disease (AD). 
Whitaker Uses Endowment to Advance Healing
Jennifer Fisher Wilson | Feb 3, 2002 | 4 min read
Professor Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou developed an experimental operation at Rutgers University that uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and electrodes placed in the brain to reduce Parkinson's disease symptoms. Following surgery, patients walk and move without the usual unsteadiness that accompanies the disease. "The work is the most rewarding science I have done in my entire career," Micheli-Tzanakou says. The researcher also created the first computer-to-brain interface by combining computat

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