Four ways to take the policy plunge

ACCENT: Take the plunge VIEWPOINT: Chuck Barris — ND style

JERUSALEM The Israe li arm y on M onday im posed its broadest clam pdow n ye t on the 1.5 million P alestin ian s living in the occupied te rrito rie s , sealing the regions for th ree days to com bat a PLO day of protest. The a rm y also announced it w as barring jo u rna lists from the te rrito ries for the firs t tim e in the four m onths of un rest tha t have left 119 P alestin ian s and on...

Thinking big: four ways to advance environmental health research to answer the needs of public policy.

Background: Epigenetic silencing of the RAS association domain family 1A (RASSF1A) tumor suppressor gene promoter has been demonstrated in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) as a result of promoter hypermethylation. Contradictory results have been reported for RASSF1A methylation in normal kidney, thus it is not clear whether a significant difference between RASSF1A methylation in normal and tumor cell...

Four Ways to Measure Culture

On India ’ s plunge into Nanotechnology : What are good ways to catch - up ?

The present paper examines how a developing country like India is competing in the nanotechnology race. Our study shows that both upstream scientific and technological capabilities and downstream regulatory capabilities are being strengthened. India has clearly made a dent in terms of scientific publications (with the main focus being on nanomaterials), in the ‘technology market’ its patenting ...

Take four neuroscientists

Colin Blakemore What is your advice to a neuroscience PhD student? Think long and hard about whether you want to commit yourself to a career in scientific neuroscience. There are limited resources, grants, jobs and ideas. The sort of people who can’t live without research are the sort of people who will have the enthusiasm to continue. Also, it is very easy to get bogged down in the intricacies...