Science Writing

Helping to Communicate Science


Selected Meeting Reviews, Feature Articles and Profiles


Bio-IT World

Informatics Moves to the Head of the Class. Bio-IT World. June 12, 2002


Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Send in the Clones - Bioethics Drama Program at Boston Museum of Science: Science Museums teach about biodiversity in urban areas. HHMI Bulletin, 2000.


Folio:

Of Mice and Medicine: Traditional and Open Access business models of publishing peer-reviewed scientific research. June 1, 2004.


Journal of Thoracic Oncology

2008 Meeting of the National Lung Cancer Partnership: a summary of meeting highlights. Vidaver RM, Schachter BS. J Thorac Oncol. 2009 May;4(5):666-8.

2007 Annual Meeting of the National Lung Cancer Partnership: a summary of meeting highlights. Vidaver RM, Schachter BS. J Thorac Oncol. 2008 Feb;3(2):190-3.


Nature Biotechnology

Slimy business—the biotechnology of biofilms, Nature Biotechnology 21, 361-365 (31 March 2003).


New York Academy of Sciences

The Explosive Silence of RNAi, Update Magazine, Jan-Feb 2007.

4th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society, Jan. 2009.

Enzymatic Sculptors: The proteins that shape siRNAs and microRNAs, Jan 2007.

Mandatory Morphogens: MicroRNAs in Development, July 2006

A Knockdown Punch to the Brain: RNAi Comes to Neuroscience, May 2006.

Running Interference: Tactics for a Gene Silencing Strategy, Feb. 2006.

1st Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society, Jan. 2006.

Base Camp: Developing Strategies for predicting microRNA Targets, July 2005.


New York Times

Far from the madding crowd, dinosaurs await. Reviews of paleontology museum Web sites. In Circuits: p.12 1/14/99.

From unusual homework assignments to a virtual museum. Carlton University's Hooper Virtual Museum

With minimalist approach, paleontology is brought to Life: Univ. of Calif, Berkeley's Paleontology Museum

Museum of Natural History puts the desert at your doostep: American Museum of Natural History

Naturalists' new tools are delicate and dazzling. In Science p. 5. 03/02/99.


The Scientist

Partners in Research, Competitors in Pay: "Interdisciplinary research programs present publication, promotion, and compensation problems for scientists". The Scientist 2002, 16(5):44

Interdisciplinary Research Gets Formal: "Casual chats in the hallway turn into collaborative efforts in the lab". C. Bahls and B. Schachter, The Scientist 2002, 16(5):17


Trends in Genetics

Creative alternatives to diploid gene expression: Review of Sex and Gene Expression Conference Trends in Genetics 16: 290-291, 2000.


Whitehead Institute (MIT) Web site

Statistics Show Strengths and Weaknesses of Genetics-Common Disease Studies

Whitehead Member Gerald Fink Receives Lifetime Achievement Award: "Thank you!" say yeast biologists to Gerald Fink for his contributions to the field"

SNPs Reveal Natural Selection in Human Populations

Society for Women's Health Reserarch

2nd Annual SAGE (Sex and Gene Expression) Meeting (Click to view pdf)

American Society for Cell Biology Newsletter

Serving Science, with a Side of Sushi and a Sip of Sake (Click to view pdf)