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Making Medicine, Not Money: How One U of T Researcher's Startup Is Rethinking Big Pharma's Business Model

Making Medicine, Not Money: How One U of T Researcher's Startup Is Rethinking Big Pharma's Business Model

The latest medical innovation to spring from Aled Edwards’s University of Toronto lab isn’t a new protein structure or potential drug target – it’s a business model.

Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

Prestigious Science Journals Struggle to Reach Even Average Reliability

Data from several lines of evidence suggest that the methodological quality of scientific experiments does not increase with increasing rank of the journal.

The Running Costs of eLife 2.0

The Running Costs of eLife 2.0

Paul Shannon, Head of Technology, looks at the costs of running eLife’s own continuous publication platform four months after the launch of eLife 2.0.

The Fractured Logic of Blinded Peer Review in Journals

The Fractured Logic of Blinded Peer Review in Journals

The case for “blinding” to make journal peer review fair seems less and less plausible to me for the long run. It even seems antithetical to ultimately reducing the problems it’s a bandaid solution for.

Nightmares in the Lab: Chilling Tales for This Halloween

Nightmares in the Lab: Chilling Tales for This Halloween

Have you ever crossed international borders with protein crystals in a big Styrofoam hand luggage, set your hair on fire, or forgotten to use the extractor and nearly gassed your co-workers?

It’s Time to Do Something About Predatory Publishers

It’s Time to Do Something About Predatory Publishers

Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard of or an invitation to sit on an editorial board for a journal with a name you don’t recognize.

How Wikimedia Helped Authors Make over 3000 Articles Green Open Access

How Wikimedia Helped Authors Make over 3000 Articles Green Open Access

Michele Marchetto of Wikimedia Italia shares the story of how they helped authors to make their open access articles more widely available.

Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal

Trashing Science in Government Grants Isn’t Normal

The Case of the EPA, John Konkus, and Climate Change.

Authorship Revised: Alternatives to Traditional Authorship

Authorship Revised: Alternatives to Traditional Authorship

The author line provides no adequate information on the qualitative contribution of the single persons listed.

How A Data Visualization Of Sperm Led To A Scientific Breakthrough

How A Data Visualization Of Sperm Led To A Scientific Breakthrough

Two scientists set out to animate how sperm moves. They ended up making a major discovery.

Lessons from History for the Future of Work

Lessons from History for the Future of Work

Global comparisons of previous social and economic upheavals suggest that what is to come depends on where you are now, argues Robert C. Allen.

Philanthropists Are Getting Behind a New Push for Government Science Funding

Philanthropists Are Getting Behind a New Push for Government Science Funding

Philanthropy’s no replacement for crucial government science funding, but that message can get lost amid the high-profile gifts. Some science funders are now backing a push to protect federal funding.