Nature magazine has an interesting essay how science works: “The security of knowing nothing” is basically arguing that we need to trust other scientists. (Show me more…)

It sounds unbelievable – not only to me but also to the editors of Nature who needed half a year to publish a paper of (probably the first true) genetic treatment. Two high-throughput screens comprising ~800,000 low molecular weight compounds were needed to identify 3-[5-(2-fluorophenyl)-[1,2,4]oxadiazol-3-yl]-benzoic acid (Show me more…)

A Spiegel Science article reports

• 1,000,000 bit/s external data stream at the various human organs
• How much of this is actively processed?

And how are unconscious (intuitive?) decisions made? Another mapping attempt at scienceblog:doi:10.1162/jocn.2006.18.12.2077

The NEJM has an article about “A National Survey of Physician–Industry Relationships” – a topic that I did not expect in the NEJM at least from what I have read during the recent change at the editorial office. That’s life – always a surprise. (Show me more…)