Data organization and the modern laboratory

Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 weeks 10 hours (judson.blogs.nytimes.com)

This is a New York Times blog post with lots of advice about how to organize data for presentation. Specifically, it's a review of the computer programs Zotero (which is basically Pandora but for scientific papers) and Papers.

Frankly, I don't see the big deal. The writer is talking about how organization got much harder after the journals all went digital. This isn't a new problem. When I was in elementary school, my teachers told me, "When I was a kid, the problem was finding the information. Yours is organizing it

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Boost for work on deadliest forms of cancer

sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 1 week (www.nature.com)

Cancer Research U.K. is to fund more work on pancreatic, lung and esophageal cancer and open up to twenty more centers as part of plans to spend £1.5 billion (U.S. $2.3 billion) over the next five years. The charity, the leading funder of cancer research in the United Kingdom, will also spend more money researching radiotherapy and cancer surgery.

Although the number of people diagnosed with cancer continues to rise, mortality rates have declined since the mid 1980s. Yet pancreatic, lung and oesophageal cancers are still fatal in most cases

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News: sheep have womb transplant

Reviver submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.abc.net.au)

Swedish researchers say ,Four sheep have had their wombs removed, then replaced, before becoming pregnant, they planned to progress from removing and replacing a uterus from the same sheep, to transplanting a uterus from one sheep to another.

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