Would Fred Sanger Get Funded Today?

Would Fred Sanger Get Funded Today?

Fred Sanger developed technologies that won him two Nobel Prizes and revolutionized biological research. Yet, in spite of this record, the question has been raised as to whether, in the current scientific climate, he might be unsuccessful in obtaining a grant because of a productivity that would be viewed as too limited. In imagining how a National Institutes of Health study section today might...

Fred Sanger: a memorial tribute.

The first sequence. Fred Sanger and insulin.

FRED Sanger is an amazingly modest man, and his into the Laboratory of Molecular Biology), took me on as a research student. Vernon had just shown that sickleown retrospective, written after he retired, a delightful prefatory chapter for the Annual Reviews of cell hemoglobin differed from normal hemoglobin by a single amino acid substitution, the first characterizaBiochemistry, is called “Seque...

What Question Would Turing Pose Today?

gence,” which appeared in the journal Mind in October 1950, Alan Turing proposes to replace the philosophical question “Can machines think?” with an operational, behavioral one. The question of whether machines could think was on many people’s minds even in the infancy of computing machines.1 To avoid the need to define intelligence or thinking, terms that he uses interchangeably, Turing asks w...

Information Technology and Organizational Capability - What Chandler Would Think Today?

Organizational capability has been regarded as one of the principle sources of sustainable competitive advantage and the foundation for strategy formulation. Meanwhile, many anecdotal evidences have indicated that information technology (IT) is playing a very important role in building an organization’s capabilities. Although there has been a myriad of research on how IT could help in today’s f...