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Questions related from Robert H. Eibl
There is a new publication which seems to be mentioned almost anywhere, i.e. in any public journals and media. They call it even a "new organ". https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-23062-6
03 March 2018 709 2 View
I found out that Elsevier's Scopus currently has a mistake in its database - it doesn't include me as the second author of my most cited paper (300x cited according to Google Scholar): "P53...
02 February 2017 9,743 6 View
Since some universities control themselves - and no local or governmental ministry of science can do anything against some form of plagiarism -, there does not seem to be a real chance to dispute...
07 July 2016 3,312 2 View
I am mainly looking for examples that worked, especially for plagiarism supporting professors and universities. Thank you.
07 July 2016 5,014 1 View
Usually exon sequences are likely to be shared within a species like mouse, with only minor differences from strain to strain. Intron sequences vary much more; that was the reason over 20 years...
11 November 2014 353 0 View
Some scientists including professors may cheat, plagiarize and steal around - but may get away with continued plagiarism. Is it the honor and responsibility of the true scientists to make sure...
10 October 2014 3,561 5 View
A day after discussing my poster with Mina Bissell from Berkeley, she gave her fascinating and concluding long keynote lecture of the conference in a full auditorium - and to my biggest surprise...
10 October 2014 3,305 5 View
Sometimes it may take many years to get the Nobel prize, and it rarely seems to be a fast earned award. Some people may expect it for years - and never get it (for example, Gallo), some others...
10 October 2014 7,649 2 View
I know the following paper (Molecular resolution of cell adhesion forces, 2004) is not in a first-class journal; how can I promote it to get it cited more often? I found it, for example, cited in...
09 September 2014 7,606 2 View
I am sure it will be, let's say, at least challenging to found a startup company anywhere (and in any field). "Traditionally" the Stanford area (S.F./Bay area/Silicon Valley) appears to be the...
08 August 2014 4,050 4 View
I am currently in Germany and would like to found a startup company to continue my pioniering work in the field of cancer research/immunology with nanotech-based measurements, i.e. AFM (atomic...
08 August 2014 1,350 0 View
Having read this review which I think is perfect, but I am not recognized as immunologist to make such estimations, I am even more convinced that late "Charly" Janeway was a real pioneer. I...
07 July 2014 542 3 View
There is nothing more bothering than having brilliant ideas, investing years of unpaid work in a Nobel-like experiment - and then being plagiarized by collaborators. This for sure happens many...
07 July 2014 9,079 6 View
I recently had the chance to read the astonishing abstract (link below) and the paper - and I really like the idea that there could be a missing link (my words) between our current, well founded...
06 June 2014 5,210 43 View
Translational cancer research wants use existing findings of basic science and bring them faster into the clinical development of new drugs. I might be wrong, but it looks to me that translational...
05 May 2014 5,788 9 View
It is not related to my research, but I was just wondering since people appear to do research of prions or equivalents in yeast for a long time, why I never heard about prions in plants. So,...
04 April 2014 6,961 4 View
Only rarely sabotage at research institutions seem to appear in the media. In my experience the sabotaged scientist, e.g. postdoc, is sabotaged twice: first by the sabotaging colleague and then by...
03 March 2014 3,285 2 View
Many scientists try to succeed in a scientific career, but despite being brilliant scientists can often not compete with those students already born with a professor title, i.e. being professional...
03 March 2014 819 0 View
There was a democratic vote today in Switzerland which will restrict the immigration of foreigners, even those from the surrounding EU, where Switzerland is not part of, but has some easy...
02 February 2014 8,630 3 View
Each geographic region may face different major medical needs. My impression is that at least in Mid-Europe (e.g. Germany) there is a good representation of education and overwhelming research...
02 February 2014 9,062 3 View
There are probably examples of students caught engaging in scientific misconduct (e.g. not acknowledging the idea and year-long unpaid work of another scientist, or stealing confidential results)....
12 December 2013 4,377 10 View
I am impressed about ResearchGate and the high quality of so many answers in several fields; this includes very detailed answers from prestigious scientists and from entusiastic students. But...
11 November 2013 1,905 5 View
Chemokine receptors like CXCR4 appear to direct many types of cancer to metastasize to organs with attracting signals like its chemokine SDF1 (CXCL12) as ligand, although the real mechanisms...
11 November 2013 575 95 View
Now, after three days of Nobel prizes in the basic and medical sciences, I wonder about the next year and decade: how many will be related to cancer research, or better, to new findings leading to...
10 October 2013 5,673 14 View
In my view ResearchGate is developing in the right direction, i.e. real scientists use it, try to help others. A few months ago, it seemed too many quacks tried to use RG to sell their...
10 October 2013 4,297 9 View
Cancer researchers of the last 100 years, dramatically helped to understand the etiology of cancer. Basic and clinical researchers developed today's gold standards, but many of the current...
09 September 2013 5,207 38 View
It was in 1999 that I wrote a research grant at Stanford University, in which I postulated that some of the chemokine receptors (especially CXCR4 and CCR7) could be involved in organ-specific...
08 August 2013 3,308 13 View
Please see attached a photo of about a dozen of "secondary" flower heads - all growing out of the same "primary" flower head, which is already filled with green seeds. It appears the secondary...
03 March 2013 8,033 13 View
I remember there where some heart researchers over a decade ago trying to inject some undifferentiated cells, which they called stem cells... appeared to be much unproven technology at that time....
01 January 1970 6,400 1 View
James P. Allison and Tasuko Honjo were announced to receive the Nobel prize. I remember the big talk by James Allison - and more or less a whole conference last year in London. There are, as...
01 January 1970 8,069 8 View
