Sharing: project will make climate data freely available to all

Project data sphere to make cancer clinical trial data publicly available.

I n the mid-1980s, the emerging semiconductor industry had a problem. Many competing standards and manufacturing practices were a costly drag on progress. U.S. chipmakers realized that solving common problems and developing industry-wide standards would benefit everyone. They created Sematech, a joint venture that helped solve thorny technical challenges and yielded industry-wide efficiencies t...

Researchers should make data freely accessible.

3 Editorial If you have ever had the pleasure of leafing through old journals you would appreciate that the journals of yesteryear were quite different. A typical article from a scientific journal of the early 20th Century was much longer than those of today. Many articles in old journals contained lots of tables but few graphs. (The graph is a remarkably recent innovation.) And, surprisingly t...

Science publishing. The UPSIDE of good behavior: make your data freely available.

Make Data Sharing Routine to Prepare for Public Health Emergencies

Jean-Paul Chretien and colleagues argue that recent Ebola and Zika virus outbreaks highlight the importance of data sharing in scientific research.

Make junction, will travel

ny cell therapy risks introducing mutated and possibly tumorigenic cells. Now results from Peter Stambrook (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH) and colleagues underline this concern for embryonic stem (ES) cells, which are one possible source for therapeutic cells. Stambrook constructed a cell line in which he could detect loss or mutation of a heterozygous marker gene. Loss (rather than ...