People, they are a changin’

Times they are a' changin'

A question that I like being asked is “Why have you left biology to go to business school?” Until recently, my answer has been a diatribe on the boredom induced by doing thousands of plasmid preps and the fickleness of the funding process. But now, halfway through a business degree, I have a much better answer: “Because the knowledge industry has changed.” As biology is becoming more like other...

APS: The Times They Are A-Changin'.

The next 12 months will see many changes in the American Physiological Society. First, you will have heard by now that our long-serving and much esteemed Executive Director Marty Frank announced his retirement from this position, effective June 2018. Second, with the sale of the APS Bethesda headquarters by FASEB that will occur soon, the APS will be relocating into a new building next year in ...

The Times They Are A-Changin’

The analogy to diabetes is obvious. The waters around us are the rising prevalence of diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity and the song calls on us to recognize that, if things do not change, we will “sink like a stone” (1). Dylan’s words serve to warn us that we need to do something now, or we will face the overwhelming societal, economic, and health consequences of diabetes. For many years, we ...

The Data, They Are A-Changin'

The cost of deriving actionable knowledge from large datasets has been decreasing thanks to a convergence of positive factors: low cost data generation, inexpensively scalable storage and processing infrastructure (cloud), software frameworks and tools for massively distributed data processing, and parallelisable data analytics algorithms. One observation that is often overlooked, however, is t...

Chemokines: the times they are a-changin'.