Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Prize’

MRI for the Little Guy

Posted on: February 24th, 2023 by admin No Comments

One of the major breakthroughs in medical science during the last two decades of the 20th century was the introduction of […]

Anatomy of Writing a Book

Posted on: February 17th, 2023 by admin 1 Comment

Twenty years ago, I had the good fortune to spend a sabbatical year in Dublin. After delivering a guest lecture […]

First to File versus First to Invent

Posted on: January 20th, 2023 by admin

Over the past six years, CapeRay has had significant success with the award of key patents in the field of […]

An Extraordinary Biographer

Posted on: December 30th, 2022 by admin

Eleven years ago, I wrote a blog, “In pursuit of the perfect design,” which was in fact a book review. The […]

A Life Well Lived

Posted on: December 23rd, 2022 by admin

Earlier this month, the European Society of Radiology announced the passing of Professor Guozhen Li (seen right, © Min.News) who died at the […]

Stanford’s Leader Under Scrutiny

Posted on: December 9th, 2022 by admin

An important tenet of the scientific enterprise is that research published in the peer-reviewed literature is based on integrity and […]

Leap Forward with CRISPR

Posted on: November 18th, 2022 by admin

Two years ago, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for “the development of a method […]

Matthew Effect Confirmed

Posted on: September 16th, 2022 by admin

In 1968, Robert Merton, professor of sociology at Columbia University, contributed an article to Science entitled “The Matthew Effect in Science.” His […]

Articles Retracted by Nobel Laureate

Posted on: September 9th, 2022 by admin

On 7 October 2019, Dr Gregg Semenza of Johns Hopkins University received a life-changing call from Sweden to say he’d been awarded […]

Free Access to Research Articles

Posted on: September 2nd, 2022 by admin 2 Comments

Fifteen years ago, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town hosted Dr Harold Varmus, then the CEO […]