Posted on September 12, 2007 by Albin Paul
After PLOS nature its the turn of microsoft, Life science researchers are in no mood to relent to industry’s interests.
Microsoft’s latest Word release has caused chaos in scholarly publishing circles. Submit a paper to, the journal Nature in Word 2007, and you will face the following warning:
‘We currently cannot accept files saved in Microsoft Office [...]
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Posted on September 11, 2007 by Albin Paul
The following article is one of the best I just came across which talkes about advantages of better collaboration in pharma companies.
The study and articles are on Act Magazine website
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Posted on September 10, 2007 by Albin Paul
The article is from the CNN Money and its about Quebec-based company Myca whcih provides service called MyFoodPhone, which lets users snap photos of their daily meals and send them to the company’s nutritional analysts.
When it comes to Web2.0 technology in medicine I guess ScienceRoll has some of the best blogs
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Posted on September 10, 2007 by Albin Paul
“Genomics is only the start. Proteomics has been around for years and metabonomics is an up and coming important technology, both of which are complimentary to genomics. But still I think that genomics will be the most successful and most predictive of all these technologies.” Dr Phil Hewitt Head of Toxicogenomics at Merck.
Meanwhile Gene Logic [...]
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Posted on September 10, 2007 by Albin Paul
Information technologies have significantly contributed to the evolution of work over the last fifty years. At first, IT was primarily applied to automate back office, highly repetitive and fairly standardized tasks, such as financial transactions, payroll, and inventory management.
Customer self-service was arguably the commercial killer-app of the Web in the ’90s. Now giving way [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2007 by Albin Paul
Evidence that mobile phones can interfere with vital intensive care equipment has been strengthened. More than half the hospital ventilators tested by Dutch researchers stopped working properly when a mobile was switched on nearby.
A total of 61 different medical devices were tested, and the majority could be affected by the presence of a mobile. In [...]
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