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Probe into faked studies rocks medical community

A trail-blazing anesthesiologist, whose research shaped pain-relief for millions around the world, has been fabricating data for more than a decade, a hospital where he once practiced claimed Saturday.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 4

Authors, journal editors respond to possible cases of plagiarism identified by UT Southwestern

By bringing cases of potential plagiarism out into the open, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have shed light on the peer-review process and scientific publication.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1




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Researcher develops personalized search engines

(Phys.org) -- With little more than basic information about Web users’ behavior – that is, the hyperlinks they click on daily and the content at those sites – Susan Gauch can build a better search engine. In ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How will the US biotechnology industry benefit from new patent laws?

Passage of the America Invents Act into law led to the most dramatic changes in the U.S. patent system in 60 years. These reforms will have a significant impact on technology innovators such as biotechnology-based businesses, ...

Technology / Business

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Harvard: Journal subscription fees are prohibitive

Harvard Library says it can no longer afford the vast cost of academic journal subscriptions, and has advised staff at the university to support open access publishing instead.

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Academic group says it's time for researches to begin sharing source code

(Phys.org) -- A diverse group of academic research scientists from across the U.S. have written a policy paper which has been published in the journal Science, suggesting that the time has come for all science journals to beg ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 16 | with audio podcast report

Online dating scammers looking for money, not love

Online romance scams, a new form of cybercrime, is under-reported and increasing, and has victimized an estimated 230,000 people in England, costing them nearly $60 billion a year, according to an article ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

First complete full genetic map of miscanthus - promising energy crop

Researchers in Wales and the United States have collaborated to complete the first high-resolution, comprehensive genetic map of a promising energy crop called miscanthus (Miscanthus sinensis). The results – published in the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Reading more into open access

For many years, the traditional method to access researchers’ scholarly works, particularly in the sciences and social sciences, has been through paid subscriptions to journals. But in recent years, a ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Academics line up to boycott world's biggest journal publisher

Dozens of Australian academics have joined a growing boycott of Elsevier, one of the world’s leading publishers of academic journals, over the behemoth’s “extortionate efforts to extract money” ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

New RNA-based therapeutic strategies for controlling gene expression

Small RNA-based nucleic acid drugs represent a promising new class of therapeutic agents for silencing abnormal or overactive disease-causing genes, and researchers have discovered new mechanisms by which ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More efforts needed to address motor vehicle deaths among American Indians and Alaska Natives

More research and programs are needed to address the elevated rate of motor vehicle-related deaths among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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