Toxin from Wasp Venom Selectively Kills Cancer Cells
A brazilian wasp called Polybia paulista produces a toxin, MP1, that targets only cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact. The toxin, secreted with the wasp´s...
Biomedicine
Open Science
Open data, open methods and open access, and the infrastructure that makes shared research usable.
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New Imaging Techniques Allow Best Resolution of Living Cells of All Time
Scientists at the Janelia Research Campus at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed new imaging methods that vastly improve resolution in structured illumination microscopy (SIM), a very advanced live cell...
Equipment
Science Hackathons Help Young Researchers Develop Necessary Skills
Young investigators find themselves in a very demanding career stage, where they must attain their position by publishing good papers, finding funding, collaborating with other...
Education
An Interview with Gilbert Faure on Knowledge Management
Labcritics was at Science & You 2015 in Nancy, France. One of the most interesting workshops we attended, in the Science Communication and Digital Technologies...
Crowdsourcing
Researcher Identity Network THOR Launched
The THOR (Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research) project for researcher identification has officially launched. THOR is a state-of-the-art identifier network built on services...
Apps
Labcritics at Science & You 2015
Labcritics was at Science & You 2015 in Nancy, France, a scientific communication event open to researchers, students, mediators and journalists. We enjoyed the high...
Crowdsourcing
Scientific Articles Will Be Visually Disseminated by an Infographics Journal
A science blogger is seeking funds on experiment.com to launch the first infographics journal called Draw Science. The journal aims to transforms research articles into concise, understandable...
Crowdfunding
Profoundly Improved WriteLaTeX Rebrands as Overleaf
WriteLaTeX is rebranding itself to WriteLatex to Overleaf, thereby indicating the completion of its transition from an online Latex document editing system to a whole new way...
New Launch