Academic research practices have remained virtually identical in its conduct and organization over the last few decades. Disparate groups of researchers work on ideas, projects and inventions in isolated clusters, with little sharing of information and synergies from collaboration. However a new shift in paradigm is not only changing how researchers collaborate, but changing the [...]
Stimulus Funding Can Lead to Cyber Infrastructures
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D
The recent announcement by President Obama to dedicate U.S.$5 billion in federal stimulus funding for scientific and other research is a an enormous opportunity for our field. Funding will not only help scientists and researchers to work toward cures and other scientific and scholarly discoveries, but modernize [...]
According to a recent article published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, computational biologists from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Pfizer argue that “high-quality, open and accessible data are the foundation of pre-competitive research, and strong public-private partnerships have considerable potential to enhance public data resources, which would benefit everyone engaged in drug discovery.”
“Pharmaceutical companies need to explore [...]
A research team composed of Taiwanese and French academics has won this year’s Taiwan-France Science and Technology Award for their study on how to prevent proliferation of glial cells, or how to balance brain cell numbers, the National Science Council (NSC) announced on Wednesday.
The Taiwanese researchers, headed by Chien Cheng-ting, a research fellow and professor [...]
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With corporations, governments, newspapers and universities embracing blogs and Twitter feeds as key elements in their communication strategies, social media have finally come [...]
