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| What contamination can do Genzyme, a company developing and producing drugs for rare diseases, got into major problems after first a viral and then a particle contamination in one of their plants. Although everything is up and running again, the competition moved fast during down-time. Link | 2010-02-10 |
| Protein structures falsified The crystallograpgy field is in shock: it turns out a researcher has faked protein structures that appeared in ten papers. The group of Prof. Gros at Utrecht University was first to be suspicious about one of the strutures. Link | 2010-01-11 |
| Breakthrough of the year 2009 As each year, Science has announced the scientific breakthrough of this year. Unfortunately it is not a genomics subject this time, but the reconstruction of Ardipithecus ramidus, a fossil ape that lived 4.4 million years ago. The motivation for this choice was that "this work changes the way we think about early human evolution, and it represents the culmination of 15 years of highly collaborative research". Link | 2009-12-18 |
| Maize genome The maize research community has a new tool: the complete genome of maize was reported in Science this week! Not only will this boost the plant improvement programmes, but also numerous tools were developed for plant genomics. Feuillet et. al. give some perspectives on this (see link). Link | 2009-11-23 |
| CV's for industry Many young scientists will go to industry after their PhD or postdoc research. In the competitive market of today, it is extremely important to make you cv stand out. In Science Magazine Dave Jensen, the founder and managing director of CareerTrax Inc., gives some well-needed advice. Link | 2009-10-16 |