by Angela C. H. McDonald | Oct 16, 2013
> This week, while perusing my favourite news websites, I discovered that October is Down Syndrome Awareness month in the US. We Canadians however, have reserved our Down Syndrome Awareness week for the first week of November but nevertheless, this got me thinking...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Jun 6, 2013
GMO soybeans might have lessons for cell patents. Photo: Philip Dean via Flickr . At first glance, you wouldn’t think that a 76-year old soybean farmer from Indiana would have something in common with microbiologists, but Vernon Hugh Bowman brought back memories of my...
by Natasha Davie | May 16, 2013
We live in a time of extraordinary medical advances. So far in 2013, we’ve seen the successful transplantation of a bioengineered kidney into rats, an infant reportedly cured of HIV using anti-retroviral drugs that are currently on the market, and discovered a protein...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 1, 2012
Some updates and news items of note: Call for boycott of subscriber-based journals gains momentum The ongoing friction between proponents of open access and the academic publishers has jumped into the spotlight once again with calls from a number of academics, most...
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