Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Scooped

Pennsylvania State University's Stephan Schuster and his colleagues were scooped after their work on sequencing the cacao genome and the Tasmanian devil was upstaged by rivals' announcements in the press while they were waiting until after their work went through peer review to promote it. S. Pelech comments that most scientists have been "scooped" at some stage of their careers, and rather than celebrating individual scientists that are the first to report a big discovery, perhaps we should recognize more those who have a long track record of scientific contribution and achievement. Read More...