Median salary of a scientific researcher by region var FO = { movie:"/supplementary/flash/Charts/FC_2_3_StckdColumn3D.swf", width:"530", height:"500", majorversion:"8", build:"0", flashvars:"&dataURL=/supplementary/xml/53491/region.xml&chartWidth=530&chartHeight=500" }; UFO.create(FO, "ufoDemo"); Replacement content Related Articles: Life Sciences Salary Report 2007• Salary by job title and years of experience• Salary by speciali

Fish wardens in Batangas. Credit: Courtesy of Jesiderio De Los Reyes" />Fish wardens in Batangas. Credit: Courtesy of Jesiderio De Los Reyes A large fishing vessel stealthily slides into protected waters off the province of Batangas, in the Philippines. Fish warden Jesiderio De Los Reyes, who lives in the local village, spots the ship and punches a text message into his cell phone. The message, roughly translated, reads: "Commercial fishing boat in Pagapas Bay. Net already in use. Boa

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The linkurl:NIH needs money,;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/49077/ and now, everyone can pitch in. If legislation proposed August 3 passes Congress, you will be able to buy a US Treasury bond and send 10% of the interest to the NIH institute of your choice. It may not seem like much, but US Rep. Steve Pearce (R-New Mexico) -- who co-sponsored the bill along with Emanuel Cleaver (D-Missouri) and Dan Burton (R-Illinois) -- noted that in fiscal year 2006, the Treasury Department redeeme

Today, President Bush is scheduled to sign the linkurl:America COMPETES Act;http://science.house.gov/legislation/leg_highlights_detail.aspx?NewsID=1938 (the full title is "American Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science Act"). The new legislation would approximately double NSF funding over the next five years (which linkurl:some say;http://www.the-scientist.com/2007/7/1/28/1/ could be a bad idea for scientists). Nestled with that 500-p

Credit: © Cody Pickens" /> Credit: © Cody Pickens In May, two years after Chris Voigt moved into his new lab at the University of California, San Francisco, his light-colored wood desks and cabinets still smell like sawdust - just as you'd imagine a traditional toy maker's shop to smell. Voigt doesn't build toys out of wood, however; he builds them out of biological parts. Having trained in chemical engineering, Voigt never intended to become a biologist. As a

Mohammad Sajid Credit: Courtesy of UCSF" />Mohammad Sajid Credit: Courtesy of UCSF Last July, a British biologist strolled into the US embassy in London to get his temporary (J-1) visa stamped so he could return to his California lab. He wasn't worried, even after he learned he needed to undergo a background check. The last time he left London for the United States, a mere 15 months earlier, a background check delayed him for six months. He was told any later checks would be mu

Scientists who have been linkurl:complaining;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/home/52946/ about flat NIH funding may get relief in the form of a new funding scheme. But run-of-the-mill researchers need not apply. This linkurl:grant initiative;http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-08-002.html is only for exceptionally innovative and unconventional proposals. "The wild and crazy projects," that linkurl:Laurie Tompkins;http://www.nigms.nih.gov/About/Tompkins.htm , a program direct

Yesterday, Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick proposed life science research legislation that he linkurl:first suggested;http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=pressreleases&agId=Agov3&prModName=gov3pressrelease&prFile=agov3_pr_070508_life_science_initiative.xml in May. When I covered the discussion on this bill linkurl:last month;http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/53359/ , Governor Patrick's administration was still hammering out the details for the $1 billion, 10 year spending plan, calle

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A Little Lab Tackles a Big Question In 2001, the 20-person Molecular Sciences Institute decided to pool its resources and study a single pathway. Has the decision paid off? By Edyta Zielinska Related Articles 1, while Ian Burbulis, a molecular biologist, looked at enzymatic complexes in Arabidopsis as a means of learning about metabolic pathways2. Mathematician Lok plugged away at a computer modeling program that enabled scientists to enter the rules of protein inte