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Angelika Amon passed away this morning. She was the greatest scientist I’ve ever met. This is a huge loss for her family, her friends, and for every biologist. As a

There may be a fascinating controversy in store for the Nobel Prize this year.One of the awardees, Michael Houghton, previously was awarded but declined to accept the Gairdner Prize because

In two weeks, the Nobel Committee at the Karolinska Institute will award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology. Who will win? We don’t know for sure - but I think

What happens to a paper submitted to a top journal?Among a set of manuscripts sent out for review by Cell in 2018:-33% were published in Cell-26% were published in another

Here are the publication records and research topic areas of 63 faculty candidates in the life sciences who interviewed at R1 institutions in 2019-2020.70% have a first-author paper in Cell,

This preprint has been going around the internet suggesting that smoking actually protects against coronavirus. I’m going to highlight some errors that went into this analysis and why I think