HHMI’s Biggest Experiment

HHMI’s Biggest Experiment

He and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute had invested $500 million to build a research campus with the intention of creating a great engine of biological discovery. They lured top-notch talent, some young and some already established, to partake in what amounted to a magnificent sociological experiment in the way science is done. They took a deep breath and set it all in mot...

TIIE BIGGEST PUBLIC IIEALTH EXPERIMENT EVER: The 1954 Field Trial of the Salk Poliomyelitis Vaccine

THE LARGEST and most expensive medical experiment in history was carried out in 1954. Well over a million young children participated, and the immediate direct costs were over 5 million dollars. The experiment was carried out to assess the effectiveness, if any, of the Salk vaccine as a protection against paralysis or death from poliomyelitis. The study was elaborate in many respects, most prom...

Biggest challenges in bioinformatics.

The third Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics (HUB) was held on 18th October 2012, at Heidelberg University, Germany. HUB brought together around 40 bioinformaticians from academia and industry to discuss the 'Biggest Challenges in Bioinformatics' in a 'World Café' style event.

Are GTGs ABA's Biggest Fans?

The search for receptors for abscisic acid (ABA), a phytohormone central to the response of plants to biotic and abiotic stress, has been controversial. In this issue, Pandey et al. (2009) report the identification of two membrane proteins from Arabidopsis, GTG1 and GTG2, that bind ABA in vitro and mediate ABA responses in vivo.

The biggest problem in diabetes.