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Solving Irreproducible Science
Connor Bamford | Sep 26, 2012 | 3 min read
Will the recently launched Reproducibility Initiative succeed in cleaning up research and reducing retractions?
The Biggest Science Scandals of 2017
Jef Akst | Dec 15, 2017 | 5 min read
This year’s controversial news included unethical behavior among politicians, a murder, and multiple accusations of gender discrimination and sexual harassment, in addition to the usual spate of research misconduct.
Resistant to Failure
Cristina Luiggi | Feb 28, 2011 | 3 min read
A Duke University researcher survives a sticky situation at a federal research institution to make major strides in determining the genetic roots of Staphylococcus aureus antibiotic resistance.
Self Correction
Kerry Grens | Dec 1, 2015 | 7 min read
What to do when you realize your publication is fatally flawed
The Search for Persisters
Amanda B. Keener | Aug 11, 2015 | 4 min read
Lyme disease–causing bacteria can outmaneuver antibiotics in vitro and manipulate the mouse immune system.
Suited to a T
Kelly Rae Chi | May 1, 2013 | 8 min read
Sorting out T-cell functional and phenotypic heterogeneity depends on studying single cells.
Making Things Grow: Insect Cells, Stem Cells, and Primary Cell Lines All Pose Challenges for Cell Culturists
Laura Defrancesco | Jun 21, 1998 | 5 min read
Date: June 22, 1998 Insect Cell Culture Media, Suppliers of Primary Cell Culture Media Advantages for Protein Expression Studies Since the mid-1950s cultures of insects--cockroaches, fruit flies, and leafhoppers, to name a few--have been the object of quiet study by physiologists and cell biologists. But along came genetic engineering and suddenly insect cultures have been put in the spotlight since they provide advantages over both bacterial and mammalian systems for recombinant protein prod
Top 10 Innovations 2013
The Scientist | Dec 1, 2013 | 10+ min read
The Scientist’s annual competition uncovered a bonanza of interesting technologies that made their way onto the market and into labs this year.
Scientific Analysis: No AIDS-Polio Vaccine Link
Myrna Watanabe | Oct 1, 2000 | 2 min read
At a Sept. 11 meeting of the Royal Society of London, convened to discuss the origin of HIV/AIDS, researchers aired scientific data showing that the hypothesis that HIV/AIDS originated from an experimental oral polio vaccine had no scientific merit. The hypothesis was popularized by journalist Edward Hooper in his 1999 book, The River,1 and supported by the late evolutionary biologist William Hamilton. It states that a type of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) called CHAT, produced by Hilary Koprows
Observers Praise AIDS Report But Foresee Problems In Implementation
Steven Benowitz | May 12, 1996 | 10 min read
Problems In Implementation LOUD AND CLEAR: Attorney Lynda Dee stresses the need for communication among the institutes. When a federally appointed panel announced in March the results of its 15-month-long review of the United States government's AIDS research program, AIDS activists as well as scientists cheered. The National Institutes of Health's AIDS Research Program Evaluation Working Group's recommendations largely called for scrapping what the group saw as outdated and ineffective polic

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