Industry and career focused stem cell report in the current Nature volume

Positively tuned (for the most part) report on stem cell science by Ricki Lewis: The hard cell Nature 447, 748-749 (June 2007) Excerpts, emphasis added by me:

research in the field is thriving globally. At least 500 companies and collaborations have sprung up, 100 of them in the past year alone…

A solid background for a researcher includes a doctorate in molecular, cell or developmental biology, as well as skills to work with specific cell or tissue types…

The “live”, thesis building blogxperiment: progress through little steps

I am really grateful for the echoes in the scientific blogosphere on my live onblogging doctoral thesis trial. (I especially liked PZ Pharyngula Myers’ thesis story which inspired me to put some pictures and texts into Comic Life.)

What is crucial here: this way I can perfectly match my professional daily job with my blogging activities and amplify it.

I am ignorant about the details yet but I would really like to use the WordPress content management environment as a true working surface for preparing the thesis.

Also I would like to share the background story of editing a thesis with a lot of how-toos.

All the progress here will be done through little steps and the thesis project by no means will turn Pimm a one-channel, thesis-only adventure.

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Let us assume you met all the local and global requirements in order to start to write your thesis: enough experimental work, published articles and ongoing manuscripts.

Moreover, you want a little more than just compiling your published articles and existing material together. You aim for quality.

What are the initial steps that come into your mind?

Well, for me the first steps are: figuring out a unifying concept behind all my experimental work and finding a proper thesis title.