Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Hands on research

Letting Go of the Details

Bloggers Candid Engineer, DrugMonkey and Comrade PhysioProf have suggested that principal investigators should let their trainees have more free rein in the design, execution and interpretation of experiments, and that the PI's should really focus on getting funding, recruiting, training, and trouble-shooting after the fact. S. Pelech argues that a PI should definitely be very familiar with the underlying theory and limitations of technologies that are being used by the trainees under their supervision and take a strong and active lead in guiding the research of their more junior trainees to avoid waste and unnecessarily prolongation of M.Sc. and Ph.D. thesis projects. Read More...