Sunday, December 21, 2008

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Best selling drugs - Lists

Two among the top selling 10 drugs are proteins while all others are small molecules. Are we expected to see more protein based drugs in the near future?

Ten Best-Selling Drugs Worldwide 2006

List of bestselling drugs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




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Thursday, July 03, 2008

Open source model in scientific research publising: A revisit to the financial future

Nature has some news to tell the world about their rival PLoS (Public Library of Science). Open source publishing by PLoS thrives on charity funding. Does the business  model needs a redesign of it's aims, goals and strategies? Or is it a cheap trick from scared Nature publishing? Judge yourself....

PLoS stays afloat with bulk publishing : Nature News

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

The corrupted use of Photoshop in biomedical research

Photoshop might be a "useful" program for many unscrupulous manipulation of research data if it doesn't make sense. Check this out
Researcher suspended for falsifying data : Nature News: "Researcher suspended for falsifying data"

Hopefully no one fell into pit following up with her research finding.
Yet nother disappointing story. Blame it on the tenure track reviews and peer-pressure!