Science Minister David Willetts published an article in The Guardian today detailing a massive plan to give free access to papers published in peer-reviewed journals. The article mentions the following interesting points: The government currently spends approximately £5bn each year funding academic research when publishers randomly make articles open access on journal websites, readership increases [...]
This past September the European Commission launched the BLUEPRINT project which has been dubbed the European Commission’s largest-ever project with with a €30-million investment in understanding the human epigenome (Nature). BLUEPRINT, which is part of the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC), has chosen to focus on the blood epigenome since blood samples are readily available [...]
David Willetts, Minister of State for Universities and Science and the Office for Life Sciences has recently published a document titled The (2012) Strategy for UK Life Sciences. The strategy includes an injection of £310m to support the discovery, development and commercialisation of research. It is hoped that the funding will help realize a vision [...]
Juan Enriquez, the founding director of the Harvard Business School Life Sciences Project, spoke about economics, cell and tissue engineering and evolution at TED in February 2009. Despite its age, this is one of the most riveting talks I have ever seen. Enriquez is both entertaining and highly knowledgeable about profound changes that genomics and [...]
The Financial Times reported (free subscription required) yesterday on a newly released government document entitled “Taking stock of regenerative medicine.” The report discusses the leading role that UK science plays in regenerative and stem cell science and cautions that new models of funding are needed to sustain what will likely be a huge financial burden [...]
