Piled Higher and Deeper (PhD) is usually right on the money (pun intended) and yesterday’s comic was no different:

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Creator of the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the Clinical and Translational Science Awards will leave the NIH at the end of October
Departure Memo:
From: Zerhouni, Elias (NIH) [E]
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:33 AM
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
For over six years, I have had the privilege of leading one of the greatest institutions in the [...]

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Good morning!
As you likely know, Washington University will host the Vice-Presidential debate on October 2. Senator Biden and Governor Palin will debate each other beginning at 8 p.m. (CDT) Oct. 2 in the Washington University in St. Louis Athletic Complex.
Last week, the Washington University newspaper, The Record, announced the following debate-related item:
Have an opinion [...]

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Please check out this update from the Public Library of Science. PLoS needs us to contact our representatives and raise our voices to support Open Access.

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A rare individual note from us today but it is in a good cause. [...]

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In a previous post, I linked to Senator Obama’s answers to the 14 top science questions facing America. Earlier this week, John McCain released his responses, too. Check out Science Debate2008 website for a side-by-side comparison of each candidate’s answers to these critical issues facing our country.
For more information, please check out the [...]

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From a press release from the Lasker Foundation:
NEW YORK, Saturday, September 13, 2008 – The 2008 Albert Lasker Medical ResearchAwards were announced today. First presented in 1946, the Lasker Awards are the nation’s most distinguished honor for outstanding basic and clinical medical research discoveries and for lifetime contributions to medical science.
The Lasker Award for Basic [...]

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Great news: we haven’t been swallowed up by a black hole today!

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a giant particle accelerator built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The purpose of the LHC is to gain a better understanding of the relationship among fundamental forces (electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force, [...]

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Jonathan Eisen, professor at UC Davis and Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS, wrote an interesting entry in his blog: “Tracing the evolutionary history of Sarah Palin: links to a parasitic nematode and the pathogenic fungus Botryotinia fuckeliana“.

It is always fun to see unique application of sequence databases and tools. Dr. Eisen also mentioned looking [...]

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In her blog “Discovering Biology in a Digital World“, Sandra Porter discusses a cool feature in PubMed which offers links to patient drug information about the drugs that are discussed in that particular article. I decided to try it out! For instance, I searched “cervical cancer vaccine”[tiab] and clicked on the “review” tab to [...]

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