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The Scientist back issues
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Concepts that click: what do natural disasters and cancer have in common? Ecology.
April 1, 2006... TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THE COVER. ISN'T THE SIMILARITY IN APPEARANCE of the St. Louis Great Flood of 1993 (left panel) and a stained section of a breast cancer biopsy (right panel) remarkable? More spectacular still are the deep concepts that link these images: the nature of ecosystems, how...
More on peer review.(Mail)(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Your recent article on peer review (1) omitted the fact that far too many journals do not report back to their reviewers. Only if a reviewer gets the decision letter plus the other reviews will he be able to learn and improve. Learning about the decision only when the paper makes it--or...
When essential genes aren't that essential.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... In "Making due with the bare minimum" (3) Eric Rubin and others discuss the nature of what are sometimes called "essential genes" in prokaryotes such as Bacillus subtilis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. They make the important distinction that the organisms being studied are grown on rich...
Fundamentalism and disease.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... Along with the Aum Shinirikyo, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and Yazidis perhaps Jack Woodall (4) should add US religious fundamentalists who jeopardize lives every day by perpetuating their doctrine of intolerance. Of $15 billion pledged to AIDS programs in Africa by the US, close to one quarter...
A better life for postdocs.(Letter to the editor)
April 1, 2006... As the first university in Europe, the Karolinska Institute founded Junior Faculty in 2002, offering a career development service for postdoctoral researchers with a PhD. We have addressed several of the concerns mentioned by the Postdoctoral Fellows Focus Group. (5)
These include...