So after a VERY long day yesterday that started pretty much in the middle of the night, I woke up surprisingly refreshed ( which might have something to do with this) for the first day of #ASBMR-the 2015 meeting of the American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). After a really interesting plenary session … Continue reading Not so sleepless in Seattle! #ASBMR15 day 1
Category: General
One of the first things I do when reviewing a manuscript is to check the scope of the Journal it is being submitted to! On doing that today I found this gem of a blog post "8 reasons I accepted your article" with sound advice for reviewers AND for authors of manuscripts!
A recent paper in the Lancet published yesterday has confirmed that a class of drugs called Bisphosphonates(BP) when given early to breast cancer patients can prevent breast cancer recurrence in the bone and improve breast cancer survival, but only in women who were postmenopausal when treatment began. HOPE for breastcancer patients then? YES and NO! Currently … Continue reading A drug costing less than 5p a day that can prevent 34,000 women a year dying from breast cancer sits on the shelf?
“Shitty reagents generate shitty science. They waste money and waste careers,” says biochemist Aled Edwards, head of the Structural Genomics Consortium, a public–private partnership to study proteins important to drug-discovery efforts. These guys have created a website for scientists to share their experience of moleculare probes- the good the bad and the ugly! And about … Continue reading Shitty reagents….
The Gartland Lab 