Monthly Archives: April 2006

Is metabonomics ready for prime time?

By Deepak Singh | Published: April 19, 2006
Some years ago, I was introduced to the term metabonomics at an ENC conference. It was evident then that using NMR to screen for metabolites was gathering steam, even in the pharma industry, where SAR-by-NMR and NMR structure determination had traditionally been the focus of NMR groups. Among the speakers at [...]
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Nanoscaffolds: Papers to read

By Deepak Singh | Published: April 18, 2006
I have talked about this subject before in Blind hamsters in past tense. Nature has a new article talking about this and some other work by Samuel Stupp’s group at Northwestern. The papers are freely available at PNAS: Elliis-Behnke et al Hartgerink et al Similar work has also been reported by the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in [...]
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The role of academia

By Deepak Singh | Published: April 15, 2006
This post was inspired by Sandra Porter’s post on teaching ethical issues in biotechnology. When I started my scientific career, all I wanted to do was work in academia as a researcher. The general belief was that “real” research was done by academics and all industry did was take academic principles, scale [...]
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Google Analytics

By Deepak Singh | Published: April 13, 2006
I wrote a few days ago that I would do a wait and see on Google Analytics. The wait is over. Google Analytics is an excellent component of my three-pronged analytics strategy … and it has oh so cool graphs. The Geo Map overlay alone is worth it. Although the Geo [...]
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Web 2.0 & Science at BioIT World

By Deepak Singh | Published: April 9, 2006
Nascent the nature blog on web technology and science has an article on a session onWeb 2.0 in Science at BioIT World. The speakers included Tim O’Reilly, Jim Ostell and Declan Butler. As a science blogger, I wish I had been there. Nature has taken the lead in taking advantage of [...]
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