Wiki for professionals , as described in this Nature article , is something to be looked forward to. Biologists are beginning to exploit the new web 2.0 technologies to improve research. Collaborative software such as this wiki will allow research findings to be aggregated in one place and rapidly divulged without the need for the whole journal publishing cycle, which usually takes months or years. But given such a new paradigm shift, its success remains to be seen.
US biotech companies have begun to offshore to strategic world locations such as China, India, Singapore. France seems to be one more of these strategic locations, where great laboratories such as the Pasteur Institute reside. When will be the time for Vancouver, or Hong Kong? ><
And here is a person who moved from the European Science Foundation to Singapore, also a major hub in biotechnology. Just keep this in mind, who knows what the future holds?
A Nature Medicine paper has published an interesting method to generate gene expression signatures that are associated with patient's responses to cancer chemotherapy. A common problem for cancer patients and doctors during treatment is not knowing how the patient's body will respond to a particular chemotherapy treatment until side effects (eg hair loss) are evident. This kind of signature will allow the doctor to better predict the effectiveness of a chemotherapy.
Thursday, March 8, 2007
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