Chemists without Borders – and especially our colleagues in the U.S. – please consider writing a comment in support of the U.S. National Institutes of Health’ Public Access Policy! Comments are due tomorrow, Saturday, May 31, at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The U.S. NIH Public Access policy requires that publicly-funded medical research in the U.S. …
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Technology Review: $100 Laptop Gets Redesigned One Laptop per Child (OLPC) version 2.0, smaller, cheaper. Imagine what we can do when everyone is connected. This is just the beginning of the Information Age. Consider this: the types of jobs that many of today’s elementary school children will end up seeking do not even exist yet.
Science Commons’ John Wilbanks has produced a 6-minute video on the Health Commons which explains succinctly what is broken about the current approach to health discovery, and how a health commons could make a difference. The current approach emphasizes profit; this makes the weight problems of the wealthy a higher priority than river blindness, a …
Repositories without frontiers (news release from BioMedCentral) * Médecins Sans Frontières implements Open Repository service * Growing momentum of the open access movement highlights the benefits of BioMed Central’s platform Today, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) adopts ‘Open Repository’ – the service from BioMed Central, which allows institutes to build, launch, host, and maintain their own …
I live very close to the Grapevine in Southern California, and this is truly a huge deal. Click on the title to check out the story. ELMO
Rust Could Be the Key to Arsenic-Free Water: Scientific American: Another interesting technology is described here, published in 2006 (original Science article here). I don’t know what stage it’s at currently. The Scientific American report ends as follows: “Given the batch nature of this process, it is unlikely that homes in the developing world can …
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The Superbug That Cures Arsenic Poisoning Check this article out, for it bears on what we are doing. There’s exciting new stuff happening all the time. Also, the source web site MedIndia.net is packed with valuable information. There’s an RSS feed for research news.