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Friday, June 30, 2006

GETRAPL

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There is a technique that is used in biotechnology known as phage display. In this technology a virus that attacks bacteria is used to displ...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Ben Franklin

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I watched an old documentary on Ben Franklin last night. As a young man he owned and operated print shops and newspapers and made a lot of m...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Education

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A story in the paper yesterday asked the question, is a college education still a good investment? On one hand, a college education is an ex...
Monday, June 12, 2006

Assays and Reality

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When you work in a laboratory in the biomedical world you have to learn a few assays. An assay is a qualitative or quantitative analysis of...
Friday, June 09, 2006

siRNA Pathology

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The Cargo Cult Airport has leaders. They send the people out with coconuts over their ears. They make sure the fires are lit along the sid...
Sunday, June 04, 2006

Poetry

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Charles Bukowski worked for the Post Office. He would do his job and come home and drink wine and write poetry. He didn't care much for ...
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Marketing Skills

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Let's go all the way back to the very first post on this blog. I talked about Koreas number one scientist, Dr. Hwang. He became number o...
Saturday, May 20, 2006

Counter-Cargo-Cult-ture

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Get it? Counter-culture? The counter to the cargo cult? Like a beatnik or a hippy, there have to be scientists out there who would love to g...
Monday, May 15, 2006

A Well Funded Cult

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Working with the scientific method can be tough. Nature has a way of frustrating us human beings. To get around our ignorance we have crea...

The Investment in People

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Seattle Washington 5-15-06 Pacific Northwest Research Institute Job Posting: Assist in basic cancer research: cell culture; purification of ...
Friday, May 12, 2006

Faith Healers

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In a previous post I quoted Leigh Turner of McGill University Quebec as saying, "Biotech, in a similar manner to many religious movemen...
Thursday, May 11, 2006

The Flu In Big Trouble

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Don't worry about the avian flu everybody. It messed with the wrong group this time. Them dumb birds aint got no scientists among them...
Wednesday, May 10, 2006

siRNA

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There are trends in science. RNAi (short for RNA interference) is one of the latest trends. The story is that DNA makes RNA which makes pr...
Monday, May 08, 2006

What We Know but Cannot Prove is So

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It's an interesting question. We know things deep in our hearts yet they are things we cannot prove. Many people believe in Gods. Their ...
Thursday, May 04, 2006

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

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Medical bioethicist Leigh Turner of McGill University, Quebec "Biotech, in a similar manner to many religious movements, has its charis...
Tuesday, May 02, 2006

What Happened Here?

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Drug makers are in a tough business. Here are a few companies and their failures. DOV Pharmaceutical: ...DOV Pharmaceutical, Inc. (NASDAQ: D...
Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Two Cargo Cult Crews Cut

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Two local Seattle biotech companies recently let go a substantial percentage of their staff. Dendreon released 34 employees equalling 15%. T...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

That flu vaccine finally arrives

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That flu vaccine finally arrives... Jan. 18 (HealthDay News) "The two drugs -- both members of the neuraminidase inhibitor class of ant...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

cargo cult scientist

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cargo cult scientist Two cargo cult "theories" came to a conclusive end this week. First the influenza vaccine, Tamiflu, was shown...
Thursday, January 05, 2006

Dr. Hwang Woo-suk Cargo Cult Top Scientist

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Richard Feynman first described the Cargo Cult Science in an address to the graduating class of 1974. "I think the educational and psyc...
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