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Chlamydia Infections Are Ravaging Australia’s Koala Population
When most people think about Australia kangaroos and koalas (the word bear is a misnomer) immediately come to mind. While the kangaroo population is thriving and, in many places, rapidly growing out...
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The Y Chromosome: It’s Official–Bigger Is Not Better!
New results by Jennifer F. Hughes and David C. Page from the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge MA published this week’s in Nature Magazine suggest that the Y chromosome, despite it diminutive size, is...
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So You Want To Be A Regulatory Affairs Professional?
As anyone who works in the drug development industry and they will invariably tell you how complex the environment has become in the past 10 years to get a new drug or medical device approved. While...
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Business Update: Biogen Idec and Samsung Biologics Announce Formation of...
Last December, Biogen Idec and Samsung Biologics (who knew that Samsung makes proteins in addition to TVs and cell phones) announced that they would form a joint venture to develop and manufacture...
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Optimizing a LinkedIn Profile to Land a Job
Social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook and niche career development communities like BioCrowd are being used to identify job candidates by hiring managers, employers and professional...
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Graduate School vs. Law School Training: Is There Much of A Difference?
For the past eight years, I have been writing about problems with the current life science graduate training paradigm. Although I knew that these problems were not unique to the life sciences, I was...
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The “Thing” About Graduate Students and Postdocs
During my daily perusal of stuff on LinkedIn, I came upon a promo link to a video report by Dan Rather entitled “PhDon’t!” that was shown on March 5, 2013on Axs.tv. Not surprisingly, the video promo...
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Life Sciences Job Market Outlook: Is the Future Brighter?
According to a report published in Nature last week, 72% of drug makers surveyed (respondents included company executives and recruiters) intend to boost their research capacity in the next 12 months...
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Live From Shanghai, China: The 1st Sino-British Cell Death and Disease Symposium
Recent progress in cell death, stem cell biology and cancer research has created a new paradigm of research direction, shifting from pure analytical approaches toward a more translational one with...
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Is A PhD Degree Worth It?
There is no longer any question that it is becoming increasingly difficult for PhD life scientists to find jobs. Further, there is no longer any doubt that the academic system responsible for the...
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Want to Keep Your Job and Get a PhD in the Trump Era? Unionize!!!!!!
It should come as no surprise that Donald Trump is anti-union and his recent cabinet pick for Secretary of Labor is clearly not a friend of working people. Put simply, Trump is on the side of big...
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Publish or Perish: Dealing With the Pressure
The “publish or perish” principle of academia is certainly not a new one and is likely as old as scientific research itself. And, while persons who choose scientific research as a career are often...
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Trump, Drug Prices and Deregulation
Donald Trump met with pharmaceutical leaders and their lobbyists yesterday. At the outset of the meeting he castigated executives for the high prices of prescriptions drugs in the US. Then, he...
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Higher Ed: Medical Cannabis Courses Are Now Available at US Universities
Back in the day when I was going to graduate school in Madison, WI, there was no such thing as medical Cannabis (although there was plenty of weed to go around). But, as the line in that old Dylan...
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Looking for a New Job? Several Major Universities To Offer Cannabis Courses
In a previous blog post, I wrote that several community colleges and lesser know universities were offering summer and/or continuing education classes about cannabis. While these course offerings were...
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