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Specifically in the peripheral nervous system, there's been some work along these lines, primarily in anesthetized experiments, using ChR2-expressing stem cells, which integrate in…

Within pharma, Derek Lowe has been blogging for many years, with a mix of posts focusing on new developments as well as broader strategic questions. http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pip…

And you feel every ounce of those when reading them. Most good versions of this class of book are this heavy (typically prescribed for the late 'undergrad'/first year grad introduc…

It refers to the Graham Holdings Company which used to own The Washington Post, still owns Slate, and also owns Kaplan.

See: http://www.ipscell.com/2016/01/patent-expert-weighs-in-on-cr... and https://law.stanford.edu/2015/12/29/the-crispr-patent-interf... They're mostly specific to Cas9.

See also: Ed Yong in The Atlantic, who has a nice story on this that includes some rather fun sentences [1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/youre-pro... [1] Suc…

On the mechanistic side of things, http://www.pnas.org/content/112/26/8106.short is one of the more interesting papers to come out recently on ketamine's mode of action.

Stanford's release on this goes into more scientific detail, and has a nice interview with the senior author in which she discusses the background behind the work. http://med.stanf…

The first author of that paper did an AMA on reddit.com/r/science that you may find interesting as an update on where things stand: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/2tykiu/…

The article is here (the link in the popsci article doesn't work for me): http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ra33.full There's a news article about the paper that Science w…

Andy Weir gave a fun talk at Google about his experiences writing the book/some of the software he used to help him in his planning. You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/w…

I did an AMA on /r/science early in 2014 when the paper I'd been working on for most of my PhD came out [1], and it was a very fun experience - lots of great questions, good back-a…

Polices tend to be lab and department specific. Most everyone I know if reimbursed for flights and hotels (though they are typically required to apply for internal travel grants th…

"[T]he New York Sun dropped a bombshell of a story: Astronomer Sir John Herschel had erected an enormous telescope in South Africa that could magnify celestial bodies an astounding…

It's perhaps more precise to say that some biologists disagree (as is perhaps inevitable). Alon's book is was the required textbook for the Systems Bioengineering (III) class at Jo…

I thought this article was one of the best descriptions I've seen of the perils (both personal and teleological) of the scientific process. "We should celebrate scientists not sole…

The authors have uploaded a copy of the paper which can be accessed here: http://hsci.harvard.edu/files/hsci/files/pagliuca_et_al_cell... (I'd actually recommend giving the paper a…

I work in the field, so I thought I'd chime in here. Our lab (and others) have published a few papers on using optogenetics to control peripheral nervous system targets, but as som…

No one should be using mercola.com as a source for information on anything. It's one of the most well-known dens of harmful and dangerous pseudoscience on the internet (see: http:/…