Analyses
Digging deep behind pure facts. – Critical, in-depth coverage of current affairs in life science research, business and policy; views and opinions about trends and problems in European life sciences; case studies of dubious scientific or business practice; insiders tell us what they really think, ...06.2009
- Life Sciences in Luxembourg (1) Not long ago Luxembourg didn’t even have a university, now the small country wants to make it big in health sciences and biomedicine more
- Life Sciences in Luxembourg(2) Rudi Balling, new director of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine, talks about why Luxembourg is a great place to pursue a systemic approach to life sciences more
- The Costs of Mobility more
- Scientific misconduct - Honesty is a virtue but how far will some scientists go for success? more
05.2009
04.2009
- Origin of Life: How did the first biomolecules form? more
- Thierry Rabilloud talks about still unfulfilled expectations in proteomics more
- Will genomic efforts help to reveal why truffles are such an expensive delicacy? more
03.2009
- The difficult revision of the EU directive on animal experiments more
- Two experts from science and industry talk about synthetic biology more
- High throughput biology is reaching the organisms essential to the production of gourmet food. more
02.2009
- Plagiarism: A case of stealing figures from a presentation and including them in a paper more
- Evolutionary mechanisms in human diseases are still widely neglected by medical doctors more
- Chris Langley on Military-funded science more
01.2009
- Steve Jones talks about Evolution today more
- Species: What exactly is a species? more
- Diethard Tautz on Speciation more
- Evolutionary theory in Eastern Europe: more
06.2008
- Open access publishing - Becoming The Norm? more
- Web 2.0 for science - A Conversation with Victor Henning (UK) more
- Life science in Spain more
- Career strategies for young European scientists (XIV) more
05.2008
- Research funding in Italy more
- ELSO fuses with EMBO more
- Cancer Genomics more
- Career strategies for young European scientists (XIII) more
04.2008
- French veterinarian and bioethicist Jacques Testart talks about better ways for scientists and the public to be involved in political decisions more
- Mathematical modelling in biology more
- Cereal diets and babies’ sex -- a case of poor science and sensationalist headlines more
- Creer strategies for young European scientists (XII): Funding opportunities in the Netherlands open to anyone more
03.2008
- Scientific espionage – Has the determination to fight scientific espionage already led to paranoia? more
- The European Science Foundation (ESF) – Chief Executive Marja Makarow talks about ESF's role in the scientific community. more
- A plea for James Watson – James Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA structure, has been massively criticised for his statements on the intelligence of African blacks. Rightly so? more
- Career strategies for young European scientists (XI) – Brain gain schemes in the Western Balkans. more
02.2008
- Open Access and Peer Review/Richard Smith (PLoS), about open access publishing and criticizes traditional peer review. more
- French research reform (II)/Sarkozy and his 'Law on Universities'. more
- Troublesome lab reagents/A real tale of woe about working with sub-standard lab supplies. more
- Career strategies for young European scientists (X: National programmes open to anyone: Austrian Euros. more
01.2008
- French research reform (I). more
- Cell cultures: Often revealed to be classified wrongly/Contamination. more
- Career strategies for young European scientists (IX) Swiss Fraenkli. more
05.2007
- Interview with Gottfried Schatz. more
- Microbial systematics. more
- Career strategies for young European scientists (VIII)/National programmes open to anyone: The German perspective. more
04.2007
- New model organisms. more
- Career strategies for young European scientists (VII)/The EMBO Young Investigator Programme. more
03.2007
- (Not only) PhD Careers/The Starting Independent Researcher Grants of the European Research Council (ERC). more
02.2007
- The Netherlands' new science minister Ronald Plasterk is tranformed from highly productive researcher to government minister. more
- Ghost writers and ghost authors in medical papers. more
- (Not only) PhD Careers/The seventh EU research framework programme (FP7)
-- part II: Marie Curie actions. more
01.2007
- Genetic testing, European regulations, guidelines and scientific problems. more
- (Not only) PhD Careers/The seventh EU research framework programme (FP7)
-- part I. more