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Workforce Issues: What About the Postdocs Already Swimming in the Pool? What Becomes of Us?

January 16, 2015
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As postdoctoral researchers, sometimes we feel a little unloved. Alternately, we feel like a mysterious emerging disease: Nobody seems to…

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Newcomers and Cytoskeleton Classicists Find Common Cause in the Cell—Part Two of Scientific Highlights from ASCB/IFCB 2014

January 12, 2015

The ASCB/IFCB Meeting in Philadelphia last month saw many new faces in the poster alleys and on panel podiums. These…

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Through Biased Lenses: The Public Perception of Science Has Changed, but the New View Is No Better

January 9, 2015
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The view of scientists as old white men in lab coats presents a highly exclusive view of who scientists can…

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Cellular Footprints, Screening Leukemias with a Tunable Matrix, and Inducing Neurons from Fibroblasts—2014 ASCB/IFCB Meeting Highlights

January 8, 2015

Scientists came from around the world to present at ASCB’s joint meeting with the International Federation for Cell Biologists (IFCB)…

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The Ebola Elephant in the Room at East African Immunology Meeting

January 5, 2015

NAIROBI, KENYA—Ebola was not a major scheduled topic at the 9th Federation of African Immunological Societies (FAIS) conference, held in…

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Challenges for the Biomedical Research Enterprise

January 2, 2015
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The word “enterprise” typically invokes images of lyrical montages, stupendous victories, collaborative venturing into the unknown—thanks to history and pop-culture.…

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Our People: Nine ASCB Members Among Awardees of Nearly $8 Million for Single Cell Research by NIH

January 1, 2015

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced Tuesday grant awards totaling nearly $8 million for research towards understanding the workings of single…

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Announcing the Results of the First Annual COMPASS Science Writing Contest

December 31, 2014
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The Communications subcommittee of ASCB’s COMPASS announced earlier this year the first annual COMPASS Science Writing Contest, with the topic…

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Your Scientific Year in Review

December 26, 2014
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It’s the end of another year. 2014 drew to a close with the ASCB’s annual meeting earlier this month, which…

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ASCB Council Gets Photo Bombed in Philly

December 24, 2014

Photographer James McWilliams asked the distinguished senior scientists gathered in Philadelphia this month for the ASCB Council meeting to relax.…

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