What HeLa Cells Are You Using?
The HeLa cell line, named after the patient Henrietta Lacks, was one the first human cell lines to be used for tissue culture. In the decades since its origin, it has become a feature in labs acros...
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Research, Teaching, Service: is a new academic syzygy forming?
A professor at a "research" university is expected to contribute to Research, Teaching, and Service. Tenure and promotions are supposed to rest on sufficient contributions in all these areas. Tra...
Read ItConfusing cause with effect: the correlation of chromosome Y loss in older men with elevated cancer and mortality risk
Correspondence re: Forsberg, L. A., et al. 2014. "Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in peripheral blood is associated with shorter survival and higher risk of cancer." Nat Genet 46 (6):624-8. doi: 10.103...
Read ItPeer Review of "Nicholson, J., 2013. Will we cure cancer by sequencing thousands of genomes? Molecular Cytogenetics 6, 57"
The following are pre-publication peer reviews received on the manuscript: Will we cure cancer by sequencing thousands of genomes (Nicholson 2013), which was initially rejected and later resubmitte...
Read ItParabiosis in aging research: Enigmatic youth factor versus ordinary stem cell transfusion effect
Correspondence re: Villeda et al. 2014."Young blood reverses age-related impairments in cognitive function and synaptic plasticity in mice." Nat Med no. 20 (6):659-63. doi: 10.1038/nm.3569.
Read ItCancer: How many genes does it take?
Correspondence re: Zimonjic et al. 2001. "Derivation of human tumor cells in vitro without widespread genomic instability." Cancer Res no. 61 (24):8838-44. Submitted to Cancer Research 8/19/2002, r...
Read ItMolecular evidence for a multiregional development of the human lineage: A response to C. Stringer
Correspondence re: Stringer, C. 2014. "Why we are not all multiregionalists now." Trends Ecol Evol no. 29 (5):248-251
Read ItVancomycin Exposure Enhances Virulence in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, an Emerging Nosocomial Pathogen
Background. Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is an emerging, multi-drug resistant bacterium associated with a wide spectrum of life-threatening, hospital acquired infections. Attributable mortality ra...
Read ItArcheology and the origins of antibiotic resistance
Archeology and the origins of antibiotic resistance Farshid Jalalvand PhD-student in Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Sweden When the bacteriologist and "accidental" discoverer of penici...
Read ItTelomere erosion as an intrinsic mechanism of species extinction: the sudden and complete disappearance of the passenger pigeon 100 years ago
Correspondence re: Hung, C. M., et al. 2014. "Drastic population fluctuations explain the rapid extinction of the passenger pigeon." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A no. 111 (29):10636-41. doi: 10.1073/pna...
Read ItThe responsibility of bringing forward new ideas in science is shared by authors, editors and the whole scientific community. A practical case.
Reading something new Every once in a while, it is healthy for established concepts and standard procedures to be challenged by ideas that come from outside the discipline's specialist field. They ...
Read ItThe Axis of Evol: Getting to the root of DNA repair with Philogeny
Phylogenomics is a field in which genome analysis and evolutionary reconstructions are integrated. This integration is important because genome data is of great value in evolutionary reconstruct...
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