One of the major breakthroughs in medical science during the last two decades of the 20th century was the introduction of […]
Posts Tagged ‘Nobel Prize’
Anatomy of Writing a Book
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
Over the past six years, CapeRay has had significant success with the award of key patents in the field of […]
An Extraordinary Biographer
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
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
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
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
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
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
Fifteen years ago, the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town hosted Dr Harold Varmus, then the CEO […]