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Roger Tsien R.I.P., predatory publishing, and diversity in science

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IN LOVING COLOR: An agar plate of fluorescent bacteria colonies created in Roger Tsien’s lab.
TSIEN LAB, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

—Late biologist Roger Tsien of the University of California, San Diego, reflecting on his 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, which he shared for his role in the development of green florescent protein (San Diego Union-Tribune, October 8, 2008)

—Nobel Laureate K. Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, remembering biologist and fellow Nobelist Roger Tsien, who died in late August at the age of 64 (Los Angeles Times, August 31)

Ioana Rusu, an attorney with the US Federal Trade Commission, on the legal complaint the FTC filed with alleged predatory publisher OMICS Group (Inside Higher Ed, August 29)

—Australian biologist Roger Seymour of the University of Adelaide, in a statement on his team’s recent study published in Royal Society Open Science ...

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