If you fancy a career move into the growing field of bioinformatics and want to do some homework before you start firing off applications, it's worth checking out S-Star.org. This Web site claims to be able to provide anyone with a basic knowledge of bioinformatics, including genomics and medical informatics. But it would help to have a basic science education. The site was set up by GLOBULE, an ...
Dusty knees and a big floppy sun hat: It might be the traditional image of an archaeologist, but a new breed is more likely to be found among the test tubes in a shiny lab than at the bottom of a big hole in the ground. Bioarchaeology is "the history of human disease, health, and medical treatment in the context of human evolution and adaptation as evidenced in the archaeological record," accordi...
"Nanotechnology is expected to fuel the economy over the next 10 to 15 years," claims Professor Mark Welland of the University of Cambridge. Welland is to head one of two brand-new Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations (IRCs) in nanotechnology, it was announced last week. The centres, chosen from a shortlist of five, will each receive £9 million of funding over the next 6 years and are to be ...
