Subject: New site pits 'posted' vs. 'published'

From: "The Scientist" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:02:53 -0400

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New site pits 'posted' vs. 'published'

Nature Precedings raises questions over the value of sharing findings before submitting to peer review

By Andrea Gawrylewski

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Plants, animals share signaling system

Endosome-mediating signaling occurs not just in animals, a finding that may ultimately turn back the clock on estimates of when this system evolved

By Graciela Flores

article

No more periods - period

Human nature and the end of menstruation

By Glenn McGee

podcast

Roots of cloning

One city's historical role in stem cell nuclear transfer research

deCODE lawsuit settled

The Icelandic research firm reaches a compromise in suit alleging former employees stole trade secrets when they left for academia

By Susan Warner

Genotyping with PCR

How to choose the right approach

By M. Tevfik Dorak

The trouble with tech transfer

Criticism from academics and industry, and fewer deals being made: What's going on?

By Ed Silverman

PLoS journal retracts phylogenetics paper

Computational Biology journal pulls paper about estimating the accuracy of phylogenetic trees, in what colleagues deem an exemplary process

By Graciela Flores

US Congress drafts funding boost

Biomedical advocates worry about NIH shortfall as Fiscal 2008 budget process begins in Congress

By Ted Agres

Paper to watch

Does a study on tail wagging show that nonhuman vertebrates have asymmetric brain function?

By The Scientist staff

Fifteen months in an icebox

Filmmaker Jean Lemire weathers one of the world's cruelest climates to document the effects of global warming

By David Secko

Graffiti becomes art

One scientist made history when he asked a party guest to draw on his wall. The guest was Picasso, and the wall drawing is now famous

By Stephen Pincock

Kids climb Everest

Scientists take school-aged children to extreme altitudes to measure the effect on their breathing

By Andrea Gawrylewski

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