Marine arctic science capability making big strides

Women making strides in big pharma.

AS FEMALE SCIENTISTS IN LEADERSHIP POSItions at a large pharmaceutical company, we disagree with the conclusion that “It’s still a man’s world at the top of big pharma research” (J. Mervis, Special Section on Drug Discovery, News, 29 July, p. 724). There are numerous examples suggesting that this notion is more than a bit outdated. Of additional concern is the superficial analysis that led to t...

Making Waves: Marine Citizen Science for Impact

1 Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Thurso, United Kingdom, 2 Reef Check Australia, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 3 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Communication and Arts, University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4 Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queenslan...

Making great strides in medical laboratory quality

Making strides toward active living: the policy research perspective.

Physical activity has been promoted to improve health for decades. A summary of the health benefits and physical activity recommendations gained national support in the 1996 landmark publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Physical Activity and Health. Specific physical activity recommendations have evolved from vigorous exercise for cardiovascular fitness to an accumulation of moderatel...

From Darwin to the Census of Marine Life: Marine Biology as Big Science

With the development of the Human Genome Project, a heated debate emerged on biology becoming 'big science'. However, biology already has a long tradition of collaboration, as natural historians were part of the first collective scientific efforts: exploring the variety of life on earth. Such mappings of life still continue today, and if field biology is gradually becoming an important subject ...