An article in the New York Times this week described a disease threatening to destroy the tasmanian devil population that appears to actually be the second known case of a transmissible cancer. This is bad news for the tasmanian devils, of course–it appears that this disease may wipe them from the wild–but I was intrigued to see the confirmation of a idea that I had been pondering recently: whether or not cancers could act as a transmissible disease. (more…)
Last March, many scientists were overjoyed to see President Obama’s repeal of a 2001 executive order issued by G. W. Bush. Bush’s order had specified that federal grants for embryonic stem cells research would be provided only for work done with the few currently existing cell lines. Its passage was especially disappointing to many scientists because it was enforced just as the stem cell field was starting to show great promise! (more…)
I was excited today to see that Science magazine followed up on its original Dance Your PhD contest with a second event: The Science Dance Match-Up Challenge. Each of the four winners of the original contest was asked to work with a choreographer to help them create a dance about a paper from the winner’s lab. One of these winners, Markita Landry, works for Yann Chemla–who did his postdoctoral research in my lab several years ago. (more…)
Yesterday was an eventful day in research news at Wired Science, with two articles on robots doing research: one studying yeast genetics, and one that uncovered newton’s laws of motion. (more…)
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