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It’s Elementary
Joss Fong | Jan 10, 2013 | 4 min read
Maria Konnikova says the field of psychology has something to learn from great works of fiction.
mixing blue and pink smoke, symbolic of the muddled boundaries between sexes
Opinion: Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Agustín Fuentes | May 12, 2022 | 5 min read
Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish.
Dr. Mom
Vanessa Fogg | Aug 21, 2008 | 4 min read
A new book explores the challenges of balancing motherhood and a career in science
Women Make Their Mark As Top Executives In Biotech Industry
Ricki Lewis | Nov 23, 1997 | 8 min read
Being a company president-a job that entails handling day-to- day operations-or a chief executive officer (CEO)-who manages all aspects of a business-involves a unique combination of managerial skills. These roles are especially challenging for women, who are rare at corporate helms, particularly in the two-decade-old biotechnology industry. As biotech matures, the percentage of women at the top is growing. "Biotech is a relatively young industry. People are still working their way up. But we a
Getting a Grip on Streptococcus
James Kling | Nov 7, 1999 | 6 min read
If biotechnology as a science and as an industry has "grown up" over the past 20 years, the search for a vaccine against the Streptococcus A bacterium may be described as "coming of age." The bacterium presents a serious challenge. In children, it infects the mouth, nose, and throat and can cause the painful inflammation of strep throat. But it can have more dire consequences--if an infected child doesn't receive adequate antibiotic treatment, the infection could find its way into the bloodstre
Meetings Of Scientific Societies: A Time For Changes?
August Epple | Sep 14, 1997 | 7 min read
Ever since I learned about the birds and the bees, I asked myself: Why would a woman want to bear a second child? Over the years, I also began to wonder why anyone would want to organize the meeting of a scientific society for a second time. After all, there are similarities between the two processes: an exciting idea leading to foreplay (development of the preliminary program), joyful activity with a climax (meeting), morning sickness (retrieval of manuscripts), birth (publication of the proce
So They Say
The Scientist Staff | Jul 12, 1987 | 8 min read
Verbatim excerpts from the media on the conduct of science. The Mystique of Modern Science The popularization of science is commonplace. We expect radio and television, newspapers and films to present suitably digested accounts of scientific ideas and practices. Sometimes historical reconstruction is the preferred method, at others it is careful exposition, using models, analogies and visual aids. One result of this is that there exists a vocabulary and a set of images through which modem scienc
Help Wanted: Publisher Seeks Scientist To Pen Best-Seller
Julia King | Nov 13, 1988 | 8 min read
In the early 1960s, Robert Jastrow, then a young, adjunct professor of astronomy at Columbia University set out to write his first book—an examination of space science that, as he foresaw it, would stimulate the minds of his academic colleagues but, at the same time, be comprehensible to the general public. His motives were altruistic, he says now. His natural passion for teaching and writing was fired by the strong conviction that even the most esoteric scientific concepts can beR
No Vaccine, No Cure
Myrna Watanabe | Jun 24, 2001 | 10 min read
Editor's Note: This is the second of two articles that looks at the progression of AIDS research over the 20 years since its identification. The first part: M.E. Watanabe, "AIDS, 20 years later," The Scientist, 15[12]:1, June 11, 2001. Despite billions of dollars spent in research funds and a brief reprieve in Western nations after the introduction of multidrug therapy, AIDS continues to win its battle against humankind. First diagnosed 20 years ago, there are still no cures and no vaccines. Pre
So They Say
The Scientist Staff | May 17, 1987 | 8 min read
Verbatim excerpts from the media on the conduct of science. A Word From the Frost Fighters ... Those protesting the test of a frost-fighting substance in a Brentwood strawberry patch have sat through too many showings of "Attack of the Giant Tomatoes." Protesters have gone to great lengths to make the field test of genetically altered bacteria into a science fiction soap opera in which men in white coats from Advanced Genetic Sciences, an Oakland-based biotechnology firm, are the mad-scientist

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