Beyond Boundaries of Biomedicine: Pragmatic Perspectives on Health and Disease (At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 4)
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The recently issued rankings of the world's universities by the Times of London Higher Education supplement ranks five University of California campuses as among the 100 best universities in the world. No other state has more than one university in this highly influential international ranking, while 42 states – and many countries – have none. Of private universities in the western United...
Phd Position in Biology (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (CCMB Hyderabad) (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research) Habsiguda Hyderabad 500 007 NOTIFICATION NO.5/2009 PhD Programme Director, CCMB, invites applications from candidates who are bonafide Indian citizens and having consistently good academic record. Candidates should have strong motivation to pursue research in modern biology leading to a Ph.D...
Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A “team of pretty cool people” in Chicago are twittering and blogging under the name ‘Museumist’. “Putting the Museum World on Display” is their motto. We’ll twue them for infringing our precious trade marks (Museionist on Twitter and Biomedicine on Display) :-)
The Daily Transcript (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Well this week the University of Toronto hosts the 50th anniversary of the Gairdner Foundation . If the Nobels are the Oscars of science, and the Lasker Awards the Golden Globes, this event is akin to the 50th anniversary of some big Hollywood studio. There are talks by many of today's hottest science rock stars and many smaller celebrations, which include lunches cocktail parties etc. This morning...
Kiko's House (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
THE FISKER KARMA The manufacturing base in little Delaware is highly diverse, so while the closing of its two auto assembly plants did result in job losses, it wasn't catastrophic. Then, in the space of four days, it was announced that: * The University of Delaware signed a $24.25 purchase agreement for the 272-acre site formerly occupied by the Chrysler Assembly Plant in Newark. The plant, which...
Phd Position in Biology (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
The Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum (RVZ)/ DFG-Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine, University Würzburg, is now seeking qualified applicants for 1 Postdoc position. Cardiovascuar disease due to atherosclerosis is the number one cause of morbidity and mortality in western societies. Immune responses participate in all phases of atherosclerosis and the newly established research group ‘Immune...
Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Here’s an innovative way of putting biomedicine on display: As Vanessa (Street Anatomy) says, the menstrual cycle has never looked so exciting! [...] Perfect for explaining the menstrual cycle for the first time to a young girl … or to a 26-year-old. I had no idea I went through a luteal lunacy! Created by I Heart Guts!, “the brainchild of [...]
Health Care Renewal (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
In recent correspondences with colleagues I was reminded of a letter I wrote seven years ago that was published in Bio-IT World, a journal about biomedicine focusing mainly on pharma, bioinformatics and related fields. As the sole formally-trained Medical Informatics specialist at Merck, I wrote: Medical Informatics MIA Bio-IT World August 13, 2002 Dear Bio-IT World: I enjoyed reading the article "Informatics...
Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Part of the fun of being involved in a medical museum these days is that the notion of ‘biomedicine’ is so much broader than traditional medicine and health care taught in faculties of medicine and health science. As a university institution for biomedical science communication we are, by default as it were, confronted with some of the most fundamental issues in the [...]
U.S. News (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
World's Best Universities: Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Lucky Elettra Wiedemann. With looks inherited from Isabella Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman (her mum and grandma), a successful career in modelling was a given. But where does the master’s degree in biomedicine fit in? That'll be her Harvard graduate dad.
2009 2010International Scholarships (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
http://www.graduateschools.uni-wuerzburg.de/life_sciences Würzburg is one of the leading German Universities in the Life Sciences based on funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG Ranking 2009). Internationally renowned research centres such as the Biocenter, the Research Center for Infectious Diseases, and the DFG Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine (Rudolf Virchow Center) contribute...
SexGenderBody (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
By Silvia García Dauder and Nuria Gregori Truths and binary oppositions in the construction of sexes-genders-sexualities. The controversy around the gender of the South African athlete Caster Semenya is by no means unprecedented. As Nuria Gregori and Silvia Garcia Dauder write, the world of sport is a social microcosm that reveals much about the role of assumptions concerning biological sex...
Collecting my Thoughts (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
"We’ve learned that what was unimaginable one day can become reality the next. Today, pressures for euthanasia are building; developments in biomedicine are occurring with such speed that they have outpaced reflection on their moral implications; experiments on human embryos are fostering a mentality that treats the lives of the weak as means to the ends of the strong; and the freedoms of...
Biomedicine on Display (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
In the last two years, the Office of History at the National Institutes of Health has grown and changed into one of the major players in studies of contemporary history of biomedicine. In 2007 the Office got a new director, Robert Martensen who has a combined medical and historical background; last year, historian of 20th [...]
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