Monthly Archives: March 2013

Bad Pharma, Good Pharma, Bad Pharma

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Philip Strange

I was surprised and saddened to hear the news that the pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca were closing their R and D facility at Alderley Park in the North West of the country.  This is an iconic research site, set among lakes … Continue reading →

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The two ideas to fix the gender balance that do not make me cringe

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Eva Amsen

When I was in the penultimate year of high school, at that point where you need to think about universities, all six of the girls in my physics class got a flyer advertising “girl days” at technical universities, during which … Continue reading →

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Sympathy or schadenfreude? – the ENCODE consortium gets the hatchet job.

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Philip Strange

A paper was published earlier this week making an extraordinary attack on the integrity of the work of the ENCODE consortium, an international group studying the human genome.  Scientists don’t normally go in for this type of public blood letting, … Continue reading →

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