CONTENTS
November 2006
GAIL DUTTON reports from San Francisco on how infected nonprogressors – also known as elite controllers – are providing clues to the control, and potentially the eradication, of HIV. 
Podcast: Resisting HIV: The Elite Controllers Feature contributor Gail Dutton talks with Steven Deeks about the rare and remarkable patients able to fight HIV. |
RELATED: Jeff Getty: Lessons in desperate measures HIV Shows Itself The Impact of HIV Why Monkeys Block HIV |
A REVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO BIOMARKER DISCOVERY EMANUEL PETRICOIN and LANCE LIOTTA describe how their methods for discovery could solve the seeming end to the pipeline of disease detection biomarkers
Podcast: Biomarkers in the blood Proteomics: Promise and Problems |
RELATED: INFOGRAPHIC: The Peptidome Hypothesis Serum Proteomics Scrutinized Rethinking Clinical Proteomics Toward a Global Proteome Software Zeroes In on Ovarian Cancer |
Challenges to your business – both daily and long-term competitiveness – lurk in surprising places. BRUCE BELZAK explains how to protect your company. |
RELATED: Case study: What happens when a fire strikes your production facility? Four ways to save money – and your business Five Things Not to Forget When Forecasting |
LIFE SCIENCES SALARY SURVEY 2006 Compensation continues to soar as the demand for highly skilled professionals heats up. How does your pay rate? Salary Map: Salaries and costs of living in 19 US metropolitan areas Salary Charts:Salary by job activity, type of research, age, and job title More salary surveys from The Scientist archive |
RELATED: Salary by Area of Specialization Salary by Highest Degree Earned The 2005 Life Sciences Salary Survey Women Still Paid Less The 2004 Life Sciences Salary Survey |
Are we training too many scientists? And intelligent lab design. EDITORIAL End this Stem Cell Racket: Once the Bush Administration policy is corrected, there’s another problem that’s at least as large. White Paper The New Federalism in Life Sciences Policy: What states and the Federal government should do to ensure progress in the life sciences. COLUMNS Working With Stem Cells? Pay Up. What the Wisconsin patent stranglehold means for researchers Saving Bison, Losing Tigers: Wildlife conservation, anthrax, and poaching. Notebook Scientists under the microscope; The cancer-fighting teen; Snyder, sludge fighter; Making science fresh; Arabadopsis in space Foundations The Discovery of Estrogen Receptor Beta Profiles The Fast Track to Success: Laura Landweber was 33 when she received tenure at Princeton. Oxytricha, beware: She still has a lot of science ahead of her. Scientist to Watch Sohyun Ahn: Thinking Things Through The Literature Hot Paper: On the Trail of a Point Mutation SNPs for Diabetes: Hot Paper in human genetics Tetramer model trashed: Hot Paper in histone biology Why hormone therapy fails: Hot Paper in cancer biology New technique IDs odor-related neurons How to predict epistatic gene interactions Lab Tools Lab Equipment You Need - Sort of: Musings on a product catalog Six Things You Won’t Find in the MAQC: The MicroArray Quality Control consortium released gigabytes of data and two exhaustively characterized RNAs, but little actionable guidance BioBusiness Getting Your Gates: How one company used the growing nonprofit funding pot to jump-start its development program, and how you can do the same CAREERS Classified Ad Confidential: To attract not just more candidates but the right ones, pay attention to the basics and follow these tips. Making better leaders out of alpha males and females Third-tier grads do better than mid-ranked grads Russian scientists test new merit bonus system
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