Publications
Too Much to Read
21/07/10 16:53 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Blogger Pedro Beltrao at Public Rambling noted that 848,865 papers were added to PubMed in 2009, and he says that there needs to be improvements in how researchers are able to find the publications that are particular important to them. S. Pelech proposes that we need to completely re-think and re-engineer how we disseminate the data from scientific research so that it is more efficiently found and utilized in databases that are directly queryable. Read More...
The Rise of Asia
24/11/10 18:39 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
The Economist reported that in 1990, North America, Europe, and Japan carried out more than 95 percent of the R&D done in the world, and by 2007 that number had dropped to 76 percent, while China's spending on R&D is skyrocketing and the number of scientists there is set to overtake both the US and the EU. S. Pelech comments that while much of the research in North America is actually performed by Asian researchers living abroad, and it is actually nice to see places like China and India contribute more to the growth of global biomedical research, because ultimately we will all benefit in terms of improved diagnostics and therapeutics as well as new knowledge. Read More...