Archive for 'Education'
Oxburgh: UEA vice-chancellor was wrong to tell MPs he would investigate climate research
Posted on 08. Sep, 2010 by James Randerson.
Edward Acton gave 'inaccurate' information to MPs by telling them the university would reassess key scientific papers following the UEA climate emails controversy The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia gave "inaccurate" information to MPs...
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Vince Cable’s science cuts under fire
Posted on 08. Sep, 2010 by Alok Jha.
Scientist line up to condemn government budgets cuts, thought to be as high as 25%Scientists lined up today to criticise the coalition government's proposals to cut public funds for research, calling the ideas "sad" and "depressing".In his first major ...
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British schools chief Michael Gove gets his sums wrong
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Derek Brown.
Cornish clotted cream's long journey, JK Rowling's wizard donation and the colossus of the Commons feature this week in BritainMichael Gove, the education secretary, has a vision: a new generation of schools run by parents and voluntary groups. The so-...
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Is Vince Cable about to end Britain’s research empire? | William Cullerne Bown
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by William Cullerne Bown.
The UK is matched only by the US in the comprehensiveness of its scholarly research capability. A historic retreat loomsIn 1960, Harold Macmillan announced the abandonment of Britain's colonial aspirations with his famous "wind of change" speech. The e...
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Cancer researcher wins science writing prize
Posted on 06. Sep, 2010 by Science news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk.
Rare childhood cancers are the subject of an award-winning essay by Nicola Harris in this year's Max Perutz prizeMy palms are sweaty and my mouth is dry, but it's more excitement than nerves, though of course the nerves are there, too. I've got my cel...
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- Evolutionary hidden information detection by granulation-based fitness approximation • ArticleApplied Soft Computing, Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2010, Pages 719-729 | Davarynejad, M.; Ahn, C.W.; Vrancken, J.; van den Berg, J.; Coello Coello, C.A. […]
- The Hallmarks of Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 100, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 57-70 | Hanahan, D.; Weinberg, R.A. […]
- Transcriptome-wide Identification of RNA-Binding Protein and MicroRNA Target Sites by PAR-CLIP • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 129-141 | Hafner, M.; Landthaler, M.; Burger, L.; Khorshid, M.; Hausser, J.; Berninger, P.; Rothballer, A.; Ascano, M.; Jungkamp, A.C.; Munschauer, M.; Ulrich, A.; Wardle, G.S.; Dewell, S.; Zavolan, M.; Tuschl, T. […]
- A Chromatin-Mediated Reversible Drug-Tolerant State in Cancer Cell Subpopulations • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 1, April 2010, Pages 69-80 | Sharma, S.V.; Lee, D.Y.; Li, B.; Quinlan, M.P.; Takahashi, F.; Maheswaran, S.; McDermott, U.; Azizian, N.; Zou, L.; Fischbach, M.A.; Wong, K.K.; Brandstetter, K.; Wittner, B.; Ramaswamy, S.; Classon, M.; Settleman, J. […]
- Immunity, Inflammation, and Cancer • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 883-899 | Grivennikov, S.I.; Greten, F.R.; Karin, M. […]
- Induction of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Mouse Embryonic and Adult Fibroblast Cultures by Defined Factors • ArticleCell, Volume 126, Issue 4, August 2006, Pages 663-676 | Takahashi, K.; Yamanaka, S. […]
- The Inflammasomes • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 821-832 | Schroder, K.; Tschopp, J. […]
- Mitochondria Supply Membranes for Autophagosome Biogenesis during Starvation • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 4, May 2010, Pages 656-667 | Hailey, D.W.; Rambold, A.S.; Satpute-Krishnan, P.; Mitra, K.; Sougrat, R.; Kim, P.K.; Lippincott-Schwartz, J. […]
- Pattern Recognition Receptors and Inflammation • Review articleCell, Volume 140, Issue 6, March 2010, Pages 805-820 | Takeuchi, O.; Akira, S. […]
- Reconstitution of the RIG-I Pathway Reveals a Signaling Role of Unanchored Polyubiquitin Chains in Innate Immunity • ArticleCell, Volume 141, Issue 2, April 2010, Pages 315-330 | Zeng, W.; Sun, L.; Jiang, X.; Chen, X.; Hou, F.; Adhikari, A.; Xu, M.; Chen, Z.J. […]
