Month: April 2014

Geek of the Week: Nettie Maria Stevens

Geek of the Week: Nettie Maria Stevens

By Joe Luna Now here is a paper title from 1905 – “Studies in Spermatogenesis with Especial Reference to the Accessory Chromosome” published in the 36th publication from the Carnegie Institute of Washington. For all the male readers out there, your father may have given […]

Life of a Cancer Cell

Life of a Cancer Cell

This entry is mirrored from the author’s blog, The Magical World of Simona Giunta.  by Simona Giunta Cancer, a word that has more than 700 million hits on Google, that features in 100 million news articles and affects, directly or indirectly, the majority of the […]

Geek of the Week: Hideyo Noguchi

Geek of the Week: Hideyo Noguchi

by Joe Luna Picture yourself at the entrance of a prestigious laboratory in Philadelphia, where you hope to be a postdoc. You just arrived from a small village in Japan and you never went to medical school; you instead learned from textbooks (in self-taught English, […]

Reference Discovery: Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Beyond

Reference Discovery: Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Beyond

by John Borghi If you are a researcher who commonly uses Google Scholar or Web of Science to collect and discover reference material, you may have noticed some recent additions to the two services. As a result of a recent partnership between Google and Thompson […]