For Young Scientists: The Human Body

Empowering young scientists.

Young Scientists 1 BREEDING FOR BODY CONDITION SCORE IN DAIRY COWS

Body condition score has been proposed as an additional trait in New Zealand’s national breeding objective. To be considered for inclusion, genetic parameters and an economic value are required. We propose genetic evaluation of body condition score using a random regression model that includes 2 order orthogonal Legendre polynomials fitted to the genetic variance and a link function to account ...

The Biggest Challenges Facing Young Scientists

As part of Cell’s 40th anniversary celebration, we are spotlighting 40 principal investigators under the age of 40. Among the questions we posed to this group was, ‘‘What is the biggest challenge facing young scientists?’’ A sampling of their responses appears below. But to see the full profiles of all 40 scientists, including their responses to this and other questions, please visit http://www...

By the scientists, for the scientists

My association with the JCB began very early in my scientific career. In fact, it predated my understanding that there would even be a scientific career. In the mid-1970s while still an undergraduate, the JCB published my very first paper, a contribution noted perhaps less so for its reporting the characterization of the first known protein in plant cell walls than for a footnote that called at...

2010 Lmu‐harvard Young Scientists' Forum