Björn L.D.M. Brücher

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Do Journals Pay Too Less Attention on Statistics?

Should this not be a must for any scientist and clinican? The Following was posted by RetractionWatch, the web link is provided: Recently, a biostatistician sent an open letter to editors of 10...

04 April 2017 4,278 6 View

Should Science and its Community keep silent?

Recently the following (marketing promoting political based) statement was performed by a new Journal, named Journal of Alternative Facts, @JournalAltFacts #alternativefacts: “There is a real...

02 February 2017 3,974 5 View

Can we protect our youth, scientists against questionable publishers?

Increasing invitations by questionable people & journals in publishing industry I personally receive questionable issues:daily invitations serving as a Reviewer(at least) weekly being a part...

05 May 2016 10,093 18 View

Do you know the Courvoisier law (sign)?

TIME TO REMEMBER CELEBRITIES: the SWISS Surgeon Ludwig Courvoisier (10th Nov 1843 – 8th Apr 1918) Ludwig Courvoisier was born in 1843 in Basel, Switzerland and died there in 1918. Courvoisier...

04 April 2015 1,946 0 View

Who takes care about the PostDocs?

Who takes care about the PostDocs? - Article in NATURE 2015 Thanks to our friend and colleague Professor Thomas Reid III from Indiana bringing this up in FB: .............Many principal...

04 April 2015 1,361 0 View

What are the consequences differences of plasma DNA and DNA from HCC tissues?

What will be the consequences out of this? Extract by Florent Mouliere / Montpellier and Nitzan Rosenfeld / Cambridge: Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is now widely investigated as a biomarker in...

03 March 2015 4,969 2 View

Cancer and the Somatic Mutation Theory: If riding on horses does not work, maybe riding on a tiger or an elephant?

Unfortunately it rather seems to be a very hard attempt at fitting in the somatic mutation theory which does not work for the majority of cancers by using superlative terms. For the majority of...

03 March 2015 2,370 65 View

Wear and tear in Clinical Guidelines?

PreludeThis commentary is a must for anyone in clinical practise, science & research and especially for the youth future academics. Please allow myself pointing out this important commentary...

01 January 2015 796 1 View

Genetics forced by new findings: Do we influence the genetic constitution of our friends?

Friends not biologically related, resemble each other genetically. Do you agree? – AbstractMore than any other species, humans form social ties to individuals who are neither kin nor mates, and...

07 July 2014 1,549 2 View

Can anyone help with mimicking nature for sealing surfaces?

Researchers from the Cavendish Laboratories, University of Cambridge, mimicked a self-cleaning film on Mott’s eyes and combined it with titan-dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 nanocrystals), which seems...

02 February 2014 9,859 5 View

Impact Factor: why did it take so long to bury this stupid variable?

Scientists of my generation will never forget when faculties tried to evaluate us and our contribution to science by the Impact Factor. This always was just a variable of quantity - never about...

01 January 1970 4,203 17 View

Stroma and remodeled ECM (precancerous niche) rather than the cancer cell itself triggers cancer development (carcinogenesis)?

it is really quite interesting: if someone looks at the scientific writer blogs and comments, anyone concentrates on the fact, how anti-EGFR therapy could be improved. But: If someone looks in...

01 January 1970 9,103 59 View

Do you remember what occurred at Jan 29, 1881?

A milestone by Theodor Billroth in surgery and cancer surgery. It is - the 139th anniversary day (Jan 29, 1881) Christian Albert Theodor Billroth (1829-1894) performed the first...

01 January 1970 6,225 2 View