11 – 17 July 2016
Global initiative seeks 1,000 new cancer models
An international collaboration of cancer-research heavy-weights aims to grow 1,000 new cell lines for scientists to study. The Human Cancer Models Initiative announced its pilot project on 11 July, and intends to complete the initial 1,000 models within 3 years. Find source
Obama becomes first president to Publish a science article
President Barack Obama has become the first sitting president to publish an academic paper, Forbes reports. The paper, though not peer reviewed, was fact checked for 2 months before being published. Find source
Anti-impact factor! Publishing elite turns against controversial metric
American Society for Microbiology journals have eliminated impact factor information from their websites. Journal impact factors are a measure of the average number of citations that articles published by a journal. The tide is turning against the impact factor. Find source
Researchers coax human stem cells to rapidly generate bone, heart muscle
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have mapped out the sets of biological signals necessary to efficiently direct human embryonic stem cells to become pure populations of any of 12 cell types including bone and heart muscle cells. Find source
Obesity 'puts men at greater risk of early death'
Scientists say though the reasons behind the trend are unclear, the study supports others that suggest obese men are at higher risk of diabetes and have higher levels of dangerous liver fat. Find source
