Thompson Scientific is great for gaging the impact factors of various journals, but it has had a bit of a monopoly on journal rankings. As with any ranking scheme, there can be more than one valid way of comparing alternatives. Enter a new ranking tool – that’s free – the SCImago Journal Rank database. This [...]

The June 20th issue of Science had an interesting story worth noting (interesting to anyone into molecular pharmacology, anyway), on Drugs, Industry, and Academia. It caught my attention because of some conversations that I’ve been having recently with colleagues and friends in the industry – how is Big Pharma going to maintain itself amid slowing [...]

Well, after much anticipation, we finally got the Bitesize Bio seminars off the ground with a rip-roaring presentation from SYBR Green I and Lightcycler inventor, Carl Wittwer. Carl’s talk took us from the early days of rapid cycle PCR to the development of the Lightcycler through to the diversification of real time PCR  into different [...]