/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2013-06-14T08:25:08-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/14/making_changes_inside_mercks_rd.php I've heard from more than one source that Roger Perlmutter has been shaking things up this week at Merck. Since he only took over R&D in March, that's a pretty short lag time - if these reports are accurate, he... 76479@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2013-06-14T08:25:08-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/06/14/one_million_pounds_for_a_new_antibiotic.php Via Stuart Cantrill on Twitter, I see that UK Prime Minister David Cameron is prepared to announce a prize for anyone who can "identify and solve the biggest problem of our time". He's leaving that open, and his examples are... 76478@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Who Discovers and Why 2013-06-14T07:58:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/21/promoting_stem_education_foolishly.php Here's a man who says what he thinks about getting students into STEM careers: The United States spent more than US$3 billion last year across 209 federal programmes intended to lure young people into careers in science, technology, engineering and... 76429@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2013-05-21T06:21:12-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/29/just_work_on_the_winners.php That Lamar Smith proposal I wrote about earlier this morning can be summarized as "Why don't you people just work on the good stuff?" And I thought it might be a good time to link back to a personal experience... 76375@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2013-04-29T09:41:35-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/29/a_dumb_proposal_for_the_nsf.php This is a bad idea: Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is circulating a draft of a bill to change the way the National Science Foundation reviews grant applications. Science magazine obtained a copy of the current version, and it would require... 76373@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2013-04-29T08:19:17-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/16/a_bombing.php I'm still trying to figure out if anyone I know personally was injured during yesterday's bombing of the Boston Marathon. So far, it's just been a couple of close calls. As it happened, I was out of town yesterday, and... 76347@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2013-04-16T08:52:53-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/22/pick_your_stench.php OK, folks, time to choose: would you rather be downwind of an industrial-scale spill of butyl mercaptan (which started in Rouen and is already being smelled in London), or. . .would you rather deal with a twenty-seven tons of burning... 76155@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2013-01-22T12:21:39-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/04/antigmo_until_this_week.php I wanted to take a moment to highlight this speech, given recently by environmentalist and anti-genetically modified organism activist Mark Lynas. Let's make that former anti-GMO activist. As the speech makes clear, he's had a completely change of heart: I... 76113@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2013-01-04T11:22:02-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/12/21/ce_news_covers_the_apocalypse.php Hey, it's not midnight yet in Guatemala. Well, OK, it's not C&E News, it's Chemjobber, but it should have been C&E News. . .... 76095@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2012-12-21T13:44:26-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/12/05/chemical_warfare_in_syria.php It's a grim topic, but I see that there are worries that the Syrian government, or what's left of it, is being warned not to use its stockpiles of chemical weapons. Back in the early days of the blog, I... 76047@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Chem/Bio Warfare 2012-12-05T12:10:44-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/11/29/there_go_the_lights.php An awful lot of people are using an awful lot of bad language in Cambridge, MA right now. At about 4:25 PM (EST), the power flickered and went out in a large swath of East Cambridge, out to somewhere near... 76036@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2012-11-29T17:13:04-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/11/14/budgets_and_revenues.php Note: politics ahead. This will not be a regular feature around here, but when events warrant, it'll rear its scaly head. BioCentury has an interesting piece this week on the growing budget impasse and its implications for both academic and... 75996@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Regulatory Affairs 2012-11-14T08:27:19-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/11/06/time_for_an_election_post.php Well, every other web site in the US will be going on about the election today, and with good reason. So I'll put up a quick post of my own, because I'll be glued to the returns tonight myself. Along... 75982@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2012-11-06T08:10:12-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/11/01/lab_animals_wiped_out_in_hurricane_sandy.php When I mentioned the people working in the research animal facilities before Hurricane Sandy, I had no idea that this was going to happen: thousands of genetically engineered and/or specially bred rodents were lost from an NYU facility due to... 75976@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2012-11-01T08:59:17-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/10/09/way_too_much_hydrofluoric_acid.php Eight tons of hydrofluoric acid released? This industrial accident in South Korea sounds horrific. I'm surprised that only 3,000 people were injured, given the population density there. And declaring it a "special disaster zone" seems appropriate, because believe me, that's... 75920@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Current Events 2012-10-09T06:37:28-05:00