This post was contributed by Jim Woodgett. Public Library of Science (PLOS) created a stir earlier this year when it announced its data access and sharing policy. Since early March, the open access publisher has required authors to include a note as to where readers may locate ...
This post was contributed by Nikolai Braun and Keira Havens, co-founders of Revolution Bioengineering. Read their previous blog post about how they started their company here. The first transgenic plant was engineered over 30 years ago, but plant synthetic biology is still in ...
This post was contributed by Maaike Pols, PhD, a Developmental Editor at F1000Research. With many changes taking place in the world of science publishing, and an ever increasing number of journals and publishers to choose from, it gets very confusing for scientists writing ...
You've heard it before – it's important for scientists to get out there and talk about their work. To tell others why that work is cool and why it really matters! There are important societal reasons, self-interested reasons, and, given that science is largely funded by ...
It should come as no surprise that those of us at Addgene believe in the power of sharing, and especially in keeping the products of science accessible in one way or another to those who might be in a position to build on that work. That’s how science progresses after all, with ...