Rethinking cycad metabolite research

Rethinking Warehouse Design Research

The Keck Virtual Factory Lab (KVFL) was created to be a platform for computationally-based research on industrial logistics systems, and currently engages nine faculty and over a dozen graduate students. Initially, the KVFL has focused on warehousing and the development of integrated computational tools to support warehouse design and optimization, and warehousing-related courses. Recent collab...

Rethinking research ethics.

Contemporary research ethics policies started with reflection on the atrocities perpetrated upon concentration camp inmates by Nazi doctors. Apparently, as a consequence of that experience, the policies that now guide human subject research focus on the protection of human subjects by making informed consent the centerpiece of regulatory attention. I take the choice of context for policy design...

Guest Editorial: Rethinking research training.

Metabolomics for Secondary Metabolite Research

Metabolomics, the global characterization of metabolite profiles, is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for research on secondary metabolite discovery and production. In this review we discuss examples of recent technological advances and biological applications of metabolomics in the search for chemical novelty and the engineered production of bioactive secondary metabolites.

Rethinking Research for Genetically Modified (GM) Food

This paper suggests a rethinking of the existing research about Genetically Modified (GM) food. Since the first batch of GM food was commercialised in the UK market, GM food rapidly received and lost media attention in the UK. Disagreement on GM food policy between the US and the EU has also drawn scholarly attention to this issue. Much research has been carried out intending to understand peop...