/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2013-05-02T07:18:27-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/02/e_o_wilsons_letters_to_a_young_scientist.php I've been reading E. O. Wilson's new book, Letters to a Young Scientist. It's the latest addition to the list of "advice from older famous scientists" books, which also includes Peter Medawar's similarly titled Advice To A Young Scientist and... 76384@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2013-05-02T07:18:27-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/26/the_portable_chemists_consultant.php I wanted to mention a project of Prof. Phil Baran of Scripps and his co-authors, Yoshihiro Ishihara and Ana Montero. It's called the Portable Chemist's Consultant, and it's available for iPads here. And here's a web-based look at its features.... 76369@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2013-04-26T06:57:40-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/24/a_new_book_on_longevity_research.php The University of Chicago Press has sent along a copy of a new book by DePaul professor Ted Anton, The Longevity Seekers. It's a history of the last thirty years or so of advances in understanding the biochemical pathways of... 76365@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Aging and Lifespan 2013-04-24T12:32:25-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/29/two_new_books.php A colleague pointed out to me this week that there's a new edition of Copeland's Evaluation of Enzyme Inhibitors in Drug Discovery. I haven't seen this expanded and updated version, but the previous one was excellent. From the new preface:... 76313@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2013-03-29T11:11:34-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/07/bioisosteres.php A couple of years ago, I referred to a journal article summarizing many recent examples of bioisosteres in medicinal chemistry. I've been meaning to mention a book that came out late last year, Bioisosteres in Medicinal Chemistry. It looks to... 76119@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2013-01-07T14:28:05-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/11/30/science_gifts_actual_medchem_books.php A few years ago, I asked the readership for the best books on the practice of medicinal chemistry and drug discovery itself. These may not be exactly stocking stuffers, at least not for most people, but I wanted to mention... 76038@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2012-11-30T11:17:24-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/17/brain_cells_different_from_each_other_but_similar_to_something_else.php Just how different is one brain cell from another? I mean, every cell in our body has the same genome, so the differences in type (various neurons, glial cells) must be due to expression during development. And the differences between... 75279@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Central Nervous System 2011-11-17T08:11:31-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/10/18/a_new_book_on_chemical_patents.php I wanted to mention a book I've received a review copy of recently: Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property: A Practical Guide. The description is accurate. It'll be most useful for people who don't have access to a lot of... 75229@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2011-10-18T12:22:31-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/07/26/data_handling_in_collaborations.php I wanted to mention a book I've received, courtesy of the editors: Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research. It's a multi-author look at various ways to handle data in all sorts of research partnerships - precompetitive consortia, academia-industrial collaborations, open-source... 75098@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2011-07-26T10:45:09-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/07/13/book_review_the_quest_for_the_cure.php I wanted to mention that I have a review up at Cell for a new book by Brent Stockwell (at Columbia): The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines. I found it a... 75086@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2011-07-13T09:40:47-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/06/08/garage_biotech_the_book.php I haven't read it yet, but there's a new book on the whole "garage biotech" field, which I've blogged about hereand here. Biopunk looks to be a survey of the whole movement; I hope to go through it shortly. I'm... 75033@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2011-06-08T11:40:46-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/10/12/drug_discovery_history.php One of the speakers here yesterday recommended Walter Sneader's Drug Discovery: A History, which I haven't read. It looks good, though, for a look back on how we got here. He also showed some drug structure "family trees" from Sneader's... 74705@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Drug Industry History 2010-10-12T07:11:40-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/09/24/serendipity_in_medicine.php I came across this book the other day, and bought it on sight: Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs. From what I've read of it so far, it's a fine one-stop-reference for all sorts of medical discoveries where fortune... 74684@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Drug Industry History 2010-09-24T10:59:41-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/05/21/friday_book_recommendation.php I'm going to be off helping out with my daughter's field trip today, so it's not like there are going to be a lot of posts around here. But I did want to mention this book, "The Elements", by Theodore... 74485@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2010-05-21T06:04:05-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/03/05/friday_book_recommendation.php Here's another outside the field - in fact, it's outside of a lot of people's fields. Where Is Everybody? presents fifty possible solutions to the Fermi Paradox: if there are a lot of planets in the galaxy, and if life... 74317@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Book Recommendations 2010-03-05T12:45:54-05:00