posted on 30 June 2008 7:46PM EST
Everyone know's where this one is going: the salaries for post-docs (and of course grad students) in the life-sciences are low, the ones in the so-called hard-sciences only marginally higher (I am including engineering in the hard sciences as there is a great overlap) and in social sciences the lowest. The annual survey of post-docs by the Scientific Research Society Sigma Xi (predictably) shows the same figures year after year (link): more than 50,000 people hold postdoctoral appointments in the United States. The majority are federally funded ...more.
posted on 25 June 2008 9:17AM EST
The much hue and crying about GM foods have concentrated a lot on the moral issues of our right to alter nature, the risks to the natural environment, the eventual risks to human health, as well as the risks to biodioversity. What those protests have failed to accept are the potential benefits that arise from GM foods.
The human body is invaded by a host of micro-organisms and viruses for which medicine has woefully failed to find a solution for. There is no cure for the common cold. GM technology can help man develop immunity of fight against some disease strains. This is a fact that those ...more.
posted on 24 June 2008 3:06AM EST
As is evident by the increase in coverage, there is an increasingly wide gap between academic research and starting a company in the press link.
The reasons for that are manyfold and include a decreasing number of investors willing to back very early-stage research, i.e. pre-protoype stage or even pre-proof of concept ventures. These investors are namely venture capitalists (and to a much lesser degree angel investors) who seek to minimize their risk to negative outcomes in feasibility studies or even clinical ...more.
posted on 10 June 2008 9:41AM EST
Does a recent trend in biofuels risk the ecosystem of host countries importing high-yield non-food crops?
The introduction of non-food crops to make use of low-yield landmass has recently been highlighted in an article by the New York Times. Overall, the consensus by several expert groups is that imported crops such as the giant reed are deemed invasive by Global Invasive Species Program, the Nature Conservancy and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The giant reed was amongst the species named in a report issued on the sidelines of a major UN conference on biodiversity, ...more.
posted on 27 May 2008 4:36PM EST
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) recently initiated an essay contest to encourage high school students to think seriously about the implications of human genetic research. The group was dismayed to find that many students failed to understand the limits of science, often crossing the line between science and science fiction. What is to blame? Is it the relatively general nature of curricula supported by national and state science standards, teachers who teach the way they were taught and not the way science is done, or outdated textbooks? Read the article ...more.
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