New citation indicators needed to measure research performance

14-Feb-2013 - How do you compare the impact of a researcher in chemistry or physics with a molecular biologist who may be working on similar projects? Two experts support the use of citation indicators that are based on percentiles, a statistical parameter that allows for comparisons with a carefully defined ...

2011 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award honours Carol V. Robinson

British chemist recognized as leader in mass spectrometry

21-Feb-2011 - The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announce Carol V. Robinson, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, UK, as the winner of the 2011 FEBS/EMBO Women in Science Award. Professor Robinson has been recognized for ...

Olivier Voinnet awarded 2009 EMBO Gold Medal

French researcher establishes RNA silencing as new field of plant biology

24-Apr-2009 - Olivier Voinnet from the CNRS Institute of Plant Molecular Biology in Strasbourg, France, is awarded the 2009 EMBO Gold Medal. The researcher receives this medal for his pioneering work on the mechanisms and roles of gene silencing via RNA in plants. With this annual award, the European ...

Twelve outstanding young scientists named as EMBO Young Investigators

07-Nov-2008 - The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced the selection of 12 of Europe’s most talented young researchers as 2008 beneficiaries of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. The programme annually identifies the brightest and most promising European young researchers at a critical ...

Stanford Scientists Pinpoint Key Proteins in Blood Stem Cell Replication

10-Oct-2008 - A family of cancer-fighting molecules helps blood stem cells in mice decide when and how to divide, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Blocking the molecules’ function spurs the normally resting cells to begin proliferating strangely - making too much of one kind of ...

Gender roles and not gender bias hold back women scientists

21-Nov-2007 - Traditional roles of women in the home and a negative bias in workplace support result in less career success for women versus men at the same stage of their research careers, determined researchers at the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in a study appearing in the November 2007 ...

A better way to copy DNA

15-Jul-2004 - Scientists have developed a new method for DNA amplification that could replace the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). In the August issue of EMBO reports, Huimin Kong and colleagues at New England Biolabs (Beverly, MA, USA) describe a way to copy mass amounts of DNA that has significant advantages ...