What Is the BRAIN Initiative?
After the unprecedented success of the Human Genome Project, many similar "megaprojects" that were previously dismissed as beyond our current research capabilities have been…
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Graduate Student Fraud: The Bengü Sezen Case
Although I like to think that fraud in academic publications is rare, there have been a number of cases where researchers have had to withdraw supposedly groundbreaking research…
Test-Tube Babies: Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine 2010
The realization of human births through In Vitro (within glass) Fertilization (IVF), commonly referred to as “test-tube babies,” represented a giant advance in the treatment of…
Graphene: Thin is In! (Nobel Prize in Physics 2010)
It is the thinnest material ever created, yet its wondrous properties will have a tremendous impact on our lives in the future! This miracle material is graphene, which is nothing…
Making Complex Organic Matter (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2010)
Carbon is the basis for all organic molecules, and therefore life itself. The synthesis of complex organic molecules can be a challenging task since carbon atoms prefer not to…