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An interview for Frontline Genomics

August 18, 2017

What are you working on right now? In terms of technology development, we are evolving our approach to Single Cell …

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Inadvertent Support

May 15, 2016

Everyday, thousands of colleagues use social media to express surprise, dislike, or even outrage for the impact factor, for articles …

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Magnanimity pays off

December 26, 2015

Francis Crick exceeded the brilliance of his famous double helix model by this magnanimous act:

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Premature human engineering

December 3, 2015

The news buzz alive with excitement about human genome editing, even human germline engineering. Successful germline engineering requires (1) a technology …

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Which publications are citable?

June 17, 2015

The number of references to a scientific publication is frequently used as an objective measure for the significance of the …

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Valor

June 15, 2015

Very few human acts are more inspiring than courage and defiance in the face of insuperable evil. While such defiance and courage …

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Evolving scientific culture

April 26, 2015

Scientific research depends crucially on the scientific culture. Unhealthy culture cannot support healthy research.

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High quality journals with low quality peer-reviews

March 18, 2015

There is much outcry about the increasing competition in scientific research. Yet, I do not hear comparable outcry about the …

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Strikingly important it is not

January 10, 2015

I read a research article in which the authors asserted the “striking importance” of their results in about 20 – …

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Exceptional papers do not need exceptional journals

December 17, 2014

If you are truly convinced your research result is important and you are right, you may not need to publish it in a “high impact” prestigious journal. The success of incremental research depends upon being published and promoted by prestigious magazines and journals.

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