PLoS ONE unveiled their new Prokaryotic Genome Collection today, along with an editorial by Section Editor Niyaz Ahmed. Well done, Niyaz! Everyone else: send us your best genome papers!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Tara Smith on Swine Flu
Tara Smith (Aetiology) has a great post on the unfolding swine flu outbreak in Mexico, California, New York... [Link].
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Our new PLoS ONE paper is out!
Our new paper about detection and inhibition of vaginolysin, the human-specific toxin from Gardnerella vaginalis, came out on line today! [Link] Please check it out and rate/comment if you can!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Kristof on pneumonia
Nicholas Kristof has an excellent blog post about the overwhelming importance of pneumonia as a cause of childhood mortality worldwide. Preventable, treatable, often overlooked.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Papers
I know that this has been widely publicized by Olivia Judson already, but Papers from mekentosj.com has changed my life. It is the most intuitive program I've encountered for organizing pdfs, searching PubMed and autoimporting, and letting me purge paper copies from my office. I've been importing manual and interlibrary loan scans of older papers as well. Amazing. It's $42 after the free trial and worth every penny.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Top picks in infectious diseases at PLoS ONE
As a followup to the interview with Bora, I got to pick some of my favorite infectious diseases articles from PLoS ONE. http://www.plos.org/cms/node/444
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
PLoS ONE interview
An interview that I did with Bora at PLoS ONE is now available at the PLoS site. We talked about infectious diseases, open access, and social justice. I also got to use the term "tyranny of the Impact Factor," which was fun...
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
A primer on funding labs and the consequences for creativity...
Stephen Quake gets it right as a guest blogger at NYT today.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Using your kids as experimental subjects...
MIT scientist attaches camera to his newborn's head, and the NY Times is there. (Link). This seems less surprising than they make it out to be, though the picture is quite cute. The article is mainly about people doing speech and vision studies, but there is mention of Salk giving his child the experimental polio vaccine. It isn't mentioned in the article, but Maurice Hilleman made the mumps vaccine using virus isolated from his daughter's throat (the Jeryl Lynn strain).
Full disclosure: I have a couple of my daughter's group A streptococcus strains from episodes of strep throat sitting in the -80C freezer in the lab.
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