Getting scooped – a colloquialism feared by naïve graduate students and battle-hardened professors alike. To see your own hard work and creative experimentation in print – beaten to the publication...
At the time that Cat’s Cradle was published in 1963, the novel’s author, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote, “any scientist who couldn’t explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a...
Scientists are known for following their head rather than their heart, or so the popular stereotype goes. Most scientists themselves, however, tend to disagree with this portrayal. Indeed, a recent...
Publish or perish. After years of hard work, months of effort are invested into writing, submitting, and revising a paper with the aim of publishing in a high impact journal....
The immune system and mating behavior of vertebrates appear to be closely linked. In a now classically unpleasant experiment, female students not taking oral contraceptives were asked to rate the...
An essay on the modern system of science: The expendable PhD Research and training go hand in hand…there are no incentives to engage in birth control when it is the...
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he history of the Department of Immunology goes back to 1971 when the “Institute of Immunology”, headed by Dr. Bernhard Cinader, was created. The Institute (1971-1980) was the first formal...
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