Rocky future predicted for labs that rely on postdocs

Rocky Mountain labs: NIAID's Montana campus.

Chance and Deception: Attacks That Rely On User Actions

There are a variety of attacks that rely heavily on user actions to succeed and don’t require explicit installs or on the part of the user. We examine 3 basic categories of such attacks: Autorun attacks utilizing physical media such as flash drives and CD-Roms, phishing attacks and web based malware attacks that do “drive-by-downloads”. Through surveying users we found the following: First, man...

Virtual labs: a substitute for traditional labs?

Current technologies give us the ability to enhance and replace developmental biology classes with computer-based resources, often called virtual labs. In the process of using these resources, teachers may be tempted to neglect the simpler technologies and lab bench activities, which can be labor intensive. In this paper, I take a critical look at the role of computer-based materials for the te...

Perceptions about postdocs

1104 During his interview with EMBO reports (Wiesel T (2004) EMBO Rep 5: 747–750), Torsten Wiesel referred to postdoctoral fellows as “students” and “postdoctoral technicians”. We take issue with this notion, as we believe this does not adequately describe the important role of postdocs in research and because it sends the wrong message to prospective employers outside academic science. It is s...

Potential for bias in epidemiologic studies that rely on glass-based retrospective assessment of radon.

Retrospective assessment of exposure to radon remains the greatest challenge in epidemiologic efforts to assess lung cancer risk associated with residential exposure. An innovative technique based on measurement of alpha-emitting, long-lived daughters embedded by recoil into household glass may one day provide improved radon dosimetry. Particulate air pollution is known, however, to retard the ...