/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derek-lowe@sbcglobal.net 2009-11-17T08:35:49-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/11/17/warren_delano.php I've been remiss in not mentioning this, but I just found out recently that Warren DeLano (the man behind the excellent open-source PyMOL program) passed away suddenly earlier this month. He was 37 - another unfortunate loss of a scientist... 74144@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-11-17T08:35:49-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/11/13/prof_keith_fagnou.php As many readers may have heard by now, Keith Fagnou of the University of Ottawa has suddenly died from what appears to be H1N1 influenza. I'm awaiting confirmation of that diagnosis, which is worrisome for all sorts of other reasons,... 74142@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-11-13T11:12:38-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/11/11/against_panic.php With the waves of layoffs going on, and all the nasty structural changes we're seeing in this business, it's easy to start feeling a toxic combination of fear and despair. And while I understand that, I'm going to try to... 74137@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Business and Markets 2009-11-11T12:24:43-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/07/a_nobel_for_ribosome_structure.php This was another Biology-for-Chemistry year for the Nobel Committee. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (Cambridge), Thomas Steitz (Yale) and Ada Yonath (Weizmann Inst.) have won for X-ray crystallographic studies of the ribosome. Ribosomes are indeed significant, to put it lightly. For those outside... 74087@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Biological News 2009-10-07T07:36:09-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/10/05/a_nobel_for_telomerase.php As many had expected, a Nobel Prize has been awarded to Elizabeth Blackburn (of UCSF), Carol Greider (of Johns Hopkins), and Jack Szostak (of Harvard Medical School/Howard Hughes Inst.) for their work on telomerase. Blackburn had been studying telomeres since... 74085@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Biological News 2009-10-05T09:32:36-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/09/25/the_details_of_the_baucus_bill.php Since we were discussing the Baucus health care proposal here the other day, I thought that people would appreciate a chance to read through the provisions of the bill before forming an opinion of it. Sorry! You can't. It's not... 74076@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2009-09-25T12:16:18-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/09/23/pay_them_now_or_pay_for_it_later.php Time for a brief comment on health care reform, now that Sen. Baucus has presented a bill to the Finance Committee (which, to be sure, I believe has already attracted over 500 proposed amendments). As is well known, the largest... 74070@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2009-09-23T07:15:57-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/09/14/norman_borlaug.php Norman Borlaug has died at the age of 95, and he's definitely worth remembering. His tireless work on improving agriculture saved hundreds of millions of people from being born to starvation. And it also kept the world from having to... 74059@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-09-14T06:48:07-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/08/19/the_phrma_deal.php I'm not always a fan of John Boehner, but I think he's on the right track with his letter to Billy Tauzin (PDF here from NPR's health care site). I understand that line about how in Washington, if you're not... 74026@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2009-08-19T07:25:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/08/17/phrmas_negotiating_game.php Now for a bit on the pharma industry and the current fight over health care legislation. Does the industry want a new system to come into force, or not? Depends on what that new system is, of course. But the... 74018@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-08-17T07:12:40-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/07/30/health_care_reform_really.php I haven't written about the various health care reform packages that are being hammered out and hammered through the various parts of Congress. That's partly because I began to think fairly early on in the process that we weren't actually... 73995@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2009-07-30T08:30:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/07/10/iran_politics_and_technology_update.php I wanted to make another brief excursion here, since (as many of you will have seen on the news), the situation in Iran is still very volatile indeed. The proxy-server efforts that I've spoken about here have been overtaken by... 73975@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-07-10T10:05:59-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/06/23/proxy_server_update.php I appreciate the mail I've had on this subject, and wanted to provide a brief update for those who are interested. If you've set up a proxy server for Iran, you can submit it here - Austin Heap is the... 73948@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-06-23T11:55:34-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/06/19/proxies_and_politics_again.php Anyone who needs pointers on setting up an Iran proxy server, drop me an e-mail; I'll send over the information. There are quite a few technical updates, but I'll only inflict them on those who need 'em. And as for... 73942@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-06-19T15:13:47-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/06/17/politics_proxy_servers_revisited.php Just a quick update to my post the other day on proxies for the Iranian protestors. The San Francisco Chronicle has an article on Austin Heap, the fellow whose web site I linked to the other day. He and a... 73940@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2009-06-17T16:16:32-05:00