A must listen about ChIP and TF binding

Chaowei  pointed out a Cell paper to me yesterday from Gordon Hager's Lab continuing (and publishing) what they talked about at the CSH Nuclear Receptor's meeting.


There's audio on the home page that I think is a great preview to thinking about how TF (esp steriod nuclear receptors) act on DNA. The other link is for the actual article.

http://www.cell.com/

http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674%2811%2900761-6

NIH solicits opinions (from you) on biomedical workforce

want to have your say?

http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-11-106.html

Not looking good for me (or Chaowei)...

this report came out today in Science...

Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards

"...After controlling for the applicant’s educational background, country of origin, training, previous research awards, publication record, and employer characteristics, we find that black applicants remain 10 percentage points less likely than whites to be awarded NIH research funding."

Looks like we have a lot of work to do to change the paradigm.

A little closer...

AIDS Researchers Isolate New Potent and Broadly Effective Antibodies Against HIV

ScienceDaily (Aug. 16, 2011) — A team of researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), The Scripps Research Institute, the biotechnology company Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences Inc., a LabCorp company, report in the current issue of Nature the isolation of 17 novel antibodies capable of neutralizing a broad spectrum of variants of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Super cool.

Electronic tattoos!
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/08/electronic-skin-grafts-gadgets-t.html

The Status of Science: We Have No-one to Blame but Ourselves

I thought this article was right on point. It's about the status of science as it relates to public outreach and education.

...If you get a job somewhere other than a research university or a national lab, people within the field will cock their heads sideways when you tell them, like a dog hearing an odd noise. Actively seeking to be at a smaller school that gives greater weight to teaching is often regarded like some sort of character flaw, and forget about outreach to the general public. Too much involvement in education and outreach activities is often looked at as a sign that you can't handle "real" science.

Check out the rest of the article HERE.