«There is a fine
set of life scientists coming through our excellent research and teaching institutions,» he says.
Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord, an international
team of life scientists at the University of Louisville, UCLA and the Pavlov Institute of Physiology reported today in the medical journal Brain.
The large
proportion of life scientists and representatives of the research - rich southeast United Kingdom on the UKRI board also raises concerns.
Of those with jobs other than postdocs, 14.9 % of the engineers, 29.2 % of the physical scientists, and 46.7 %
of the life scientists reported they'd be working in academe, though the nature of their work was not indicated.
While most
types of life scientists can find a niche in the field, what's really needed, says Nichtberger with Tengion, are individuals with highly specific technical and functional expertise.
University researchers who work with dangerous pathogens should keep an eye on each other and report any signs of suspicious behavior to lab managers, says a
panel of life scientists that was asked by the U.S. government to think of ways to tackle the threat of lab insiders carrying out a bioterrorist attack.
The AAAS 2001 Salary Survey
of Life Scientists offers additional insights into the compensation of young scientists and a rather dismal view of postdoc salaries.
A team
of life scientists led by UCLA's Brenda Larison has found at least part of the answer: The amount and intensity of striping can be best predicted by the temperature of the environment in which zebras live.
If you were to believe Oreskes, three dead scientists (founders of Marshall Institute) hypnotized tens of
thousands of living scientists to reject man - made global warming of the catastrophic kind.
When molecular biologist and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman first sounded the alarm about the need for major overhauls to the way the United States trains its biomedical workforce in the 1998 National Academies of Science report Trends in the Early
Careers of Life Scientists, many of her proposals fell on deaf ears.
Burrill sees the development of what he calls «theranostic drugs» — remedies targeted at specific populations of patients — as a critical factor in the future
employment of life scientists.
Of those with definite plans for a position in the United States, 65.9 %
of the life scientists, 47.5 % of the physical scientists, and 33.3 % of the engineers were headed to postdocs.
The data also show that 63.8 % of the physical scientists, 57.9 %
of the life scientists, and 57.0 % of the engineers landed post-graduation jobs.
Trends in the Early Careers
of Life Scientists Committee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in Careers of Life Scientists, National Research Council (National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1998).
Of the new Ph.D. recipients who do have definite postdegree commitments, only a minority had regular jobs to go to: 35.8 %
of the life scientists and 46.5 % of the physical scientists; the rest were heading for postdoc positions.
In 1998, Shirley Tilghman — then a molecular biology professor at Princeton University and now Princeton's outgoing president — chaired a National Research Council committee that was charged with examining trends in the early careers
of life scientists.
of life scientists, biomedical engineers, and physicians to provide the space biomedical workforce of the future.
Our data show that a faculty research career is the career path most often considered «extremely attractive» and ranks among the most desirable careers for over 50 %
of life scientists and physicists.