Related Articles Tips for choosing a microscope setup Going Live How it Works: Two-Photon Microscopy Pooling resources Prioritizing speed Mix and match Deep down view User: Warwick Nesbitt, a hematologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Project: Quantifying the adhesion footprint of platelets on proteins in the blood vessel cell wall. Problem: Achieving ultrahigh resolution. Solution: Nesbitt uses total internal reflection fluorescen

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An animal rights group says it vandalized the home of a Los Angeles neuroscientist, adding yet another incident to a string of recent attacks on UCLA researchers. The incident is being investigated by the FBI and local authorities. An anonymous linkurl:statement;http://www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/communiques/2007-10-25_uclalondon.htm posted on the Web site of the North American Animal Liberation Press Office described in detail how the perpetrators, members of the Animal Liberation Fron

At an 11-th hour hearing, a Federal court in Virginia today issued an injunction that will temporarily block controversial new patent rules from taking effect tomorrow (November 1). The court hearing concerned the linkurl:lawsuit;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53705/ filed by GlaxoSmithKline against the US Patent and Trademark Office earlier this month, on the grounds that the patent agency did not have the authority to create the new rules. The final version of the linkurl:new rul

What would you do if you realized you'd made a mistake in a paper you wrote half a century ago? When an 84-year-old retired chemist Googled himself ("I wanted to see, what have I done in all these many years?") he wasn't so happy with what he found, linkurl:The New York Times;http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/25jacobson.html?ref=science reports. A paper of his, published in American Scientist in 1955, had become fodder for creationist arguments about the origin of life. But not only

NIH will hold a final working group meeting tomorrow (October 25) to discuss how to linkurl:amend peer review.;http://enhancing-peer-review.nih.gov/index.html The agency linkurl:kicked off;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53276/ its review of peer review this summer with the aim of "optimizing its efficiency and effectiveness" - a process many researchers have agreed is needed. The plan is to present results of the series of meetings at the end of this year, and to propose recommendatio

CDC director Julie Gerberding spoke on Tuesday (Oct. 23) at a linkurl:Senate hearing;http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=ab4f7563-802a-23ad-468e-b225c43aef22 about the public health effects of climate change. But according to a linkurl:story;http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5inODG24ecfdaA-wDYGJMdlIfeVUA in the AP (thanks, linkurl:WSJ Health Blog;http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/10/24/cdc-climate-testimony-eviscerated-by-white-house/ ), six pages detaili

According to the Science Media Center in the UK, James Watson has cancelled all his remaining speaking engagements in the UK and will be returning to the US, in the aftermath of the linkurl:uproar;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53714/ created by his linkurl:comments;http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/53712/ on race and intelligence. In today's news reports, Watson appears almost befuddled by the words that came out of his mouth. "I am mortified about what has happened," Watso