Thanks for an excellent article, and for creating The Scientist Video Awards competition.1
Homemade videos of scientists at work may be the best way to show the general public how science works, and make it relevant to their daily lives. Hopefully this article and the video competition will encourage more scientists to make videos about their work, and other professionals to develop resources and tools to make it easy for them to do so.
Chris Farnet
Biotech Consultant
Montreal, CANADA
chris.farnet@post.harvard.edu
I’ve had a similar experience to Steven Wiley, who laments how some ideas won’t get funding if they’re deemed ahead of their time.1 In the mid-1980s, the p53 protein was considered an odd cancer protein because if its gene was introduced into a normal cell, it did not cause the cells to be immortalized. My lab found that the protein responded to stress in the form of DNA damage, ...
