Review: The Surplus of Postdocs
An alarming number of postdocs are facing trouble in finding stable positions in academia and industry. Although this problem isn’t something new and has been...
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Education
Training, careers and the state of scientific education, including the postdoc pipeline.
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Lab Wars, the Card Game Inspired by Research
A postdoc from the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge and a clinical psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire have conceived a card game based on life in...
Education
Decline of Basic Science Papers in Medical Journals
Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto have published a meta-research paper where they state the worrying decline in the number of basic research articles in...
Basic Research
Foldscope: A Paper Microscope that Costs $1
A team of researchers from Stanford University has developed a paper microscope that costs one dollar. Foldscope is printed in a sheet of paper and...
Education
EMBO Announces Lab Management and Negociation Course for Females
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has announced the celebration of a laboratory management course for females, focused on interpersonal aspects like communication abilities and negociation....
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From Russia with Love… for Science
Labcritics presents a lengthy interview with Elizaveta Katorcha, a Russian scientist working in the US. The structural biologist and X-ray spectroscopist talks about her love for...
Basic Research
Machine Learning is Now Closer to Human Learning
Researchers from the Massachussets Institute of Technology, University of Toronto and New York University have developed an algorithm that allows machines to learn like humans,...
Basic Research
Cancer-related DNA Replication During Mitosis
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered that some parts of the genome don´t replicate during S-phase, but only after entering mitosis. The genomic...
Basic Research