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...what about accidental discoveries? Simonton mentions the case of biologist Alexander Fleming, who, in 1928, "noticed quite by chance that a culture of Staphylococcus had been contaminated by a blue-green mold. Around the mold was a halo." Bingo: penicillin. But what if you had been in Fleming's lab that day and noticed the halo first? Would you be the genius...
...Academics used look at police like we were the white rats and they had the lab coats on ... But it's much better now. And for us, it's irresponsible not to seek the help when an entire city is trying to find some answers." - On hiring a Northeastern University criminologist from Boston to help determine why a man killed seven people, including himself, in a 2006 killing spree in Seattle, New York Times, June...
...condition—or, at least, the human condition at Harvard. “They’re intimidating,” one of my historian friends said, when asked why he had never dated a scientist. There were the logistical issues, of course: their long hours in the lab, their multiple problem sets, all precluded the possibility of his getting to know girls in the sciences. And scientists get so uppity, he said, just because the questions they ask always had answers. “They think you’re full of crap,” he said...
...that fact not been lost on RNL BIO, the company that Lee and his team do research for, which sold a $50,000 cloned Pit Bull Terrier to an American client last year. And RNL is not alone on this commercial frontier. Sooam Biotech Research Foundation, another Seoul lab run by Hwang Woo Suk who led Snuppy's cloning at SNU but was later shunned by the international scientific community for fabricating research on human embryos, made headlines in early February for cloning a Labrador named "Lancey" for a Florida couple who paid $150,000 for the pup. Lee says...
When Lee Byeon Chun looks back four years to when he helped clone the world's first dog, he confesses it was a stressful time. All of his colleagues, he says, were obsessed with the puppy - an Afghan hound named "Snuppy," overanalyzing its every move and whimper in the lab. "I would sleep there sometimes," says Lee, who now heads a team of scientists and researchers at Seoul National University. Today, Lee does not devote all his waking hours to Snuppy, who still lives in the campus lab kennel. He now has a lab full of other cloned canines...