Yoshinori Ohsumi, an honorary professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, this week (October 3) won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of his discoveries on the mechanisms of autophagy. On October 5, Jean-Pierre Sauvage of the University of Strasbourg, France, J. Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Bernard Feringa of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, were named the three co-laureates for this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The trio was honored for its collective achievements in the design and synthesis of molecular machines.
Attorneys representing former Wayne State University researcher Fazlul Sarkar and users of the post-publication peer review website PubPeer addressed Michigan State Court of Appeals judges’ questions this week (October 4) in Detroit. The Scientist spoke with both attorneys, plus pseudonymous whistleblower Clare Francis, about what might happen next in this years-long litigation, first reported by The Scientist in ...
