Caren G. Solomon, directora adjunta del New England Journal of Medicineofreció el pasado lunes 10 de octubre de 2011 en el Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona la conferencia Publishing your paper. Solomon es también profesora asociada de Medicina en la Harvard Medical School y médica asociada del departamento de medicina del Brigham & Women’s Hospital de Boston. Dentro de su…
2011
In her position as Secretary of State for Universities and Research in Felipe González’s first government, Carmina Virgili found but one obstacle for the fact of being a woman in a traditionally male-dominated environment: on more than one occasion, La Moncloa’s doorkeepers would block her way on the grounds that only high-ranking positions were allowed in. She…
2009
Increasing numbers of citizens take Prozac to brighten their mood, or Provigil to increase their concentration. Is it okay to use them? What risks are involved? Do we have the right to provide these assumed benefits to our children? Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of…
2009
Although one generation apart, two renowned female scientists coincide in their optimism for the future. Margarita Salas and Fátima Bosch see it as a matter of time that women start collecting the fruit of seeds sown over the years, that is, leaving behind a situation where women’s preeminent presence in classrooms and research teams fails to translate into promotion…
2006
Being a Catalan woman who barely spoke Swedish did not hinder Neus Visa from teaching at the Department of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics of the Stockholm University and, with time, from mastering the Swedish language. Teaching accounts for only 25% of her professional life. The rest of her time is invested in trying to…
2005
As part of the current presentation of The Genographic Project, a study sponsored by National Geographic and IBM is attempting to trace the human migration routes throughout history. Sitting astride anthropology and genetics, this is high-scale research: for five years, ten laboratories worldwide will work together with the same methodology to analyze more than 100,000 DNA samples…
2005
Born more than thirty years ago with the purpose of overshadowing the United States, it is apparently achieving its objective. The EMBL –the European Molecular Biology Laboratory headquartered in Heidelberg– is presently one of the reference research centers in Europe. Eighty-five percent of the scientists that have worked in its premises have decided to pursue their…
2005
Born more than thirty years ago with the purpose of overshadowing the United States, it is apparently achieving its objective. The EMBL –the European Molecular Biology Laboratory headquartered in Heidelberg– is presently one of the reference research centers in Europe. Eighty-five percent of the scientists that have worked in its premises have decided to pursue…
2005
The fourth edition of the seminar on How to write a scientific paper , held in the School of Medicine at the University of Malaga, included a lecture related to the topic of this course. The Associate Editor of the journal Hepatology, Dr. Vicente Arroyo (Director of the Institut de Malalties Digestives de l’Hospital Clínic…
2005
In the year of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, Aula El País and the Esteve Foundation presented the book Rosalind Franklin, the dark lady of DNA on November 14, 2003. Written by British journalist Brenda Maddox, the biography reviews the career of the scientist who first produced…
2003
