Raw Data: A Novel on Life in Science by Pernille Rørth PDF

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By Pernille Rørth

ISBN-10: 3319239724

ISBN-13: 9783319239729

Chloe and Karen are bold and independent-minded younger scientists, either making an attempt to make their mark within the aggressive global of biomedical technological know-how. They paintings in Tom Palmer’s lab at a top-tier examine institute within the US. lifestyles within the lab is filled with pleasure and passion, but additionally frustrations, jealousy and the terror of being scooped. while honesty and scientific
integrity are wondered within the context of a paper authorized at a prestigious magazine, all are deeply affected and everybody needs to come to a decision what activities to take to avoid wasting their careers.
The fundamental reason of this novel is to attract the reader into the lives of scientists and show what makes humans of this occupation – or vocation – “tick”. choked with shrewdpermanent, driven, 

enthusiastic, and but fallible, participants, the tale portrays the attention-grabbing international of top-level science. It illuminates motivations at the back of disastrous occasions that may emerge when ambitions conflict with the way in which technology is meant to work.

The novel is complemented by means of an in depth interview with the writer on defining features of modern bio-medical study: the demanding situations of turning discovery into publications (“publish or perish”), peer assessment, ladies in technological know-how and, after all, medical misconduct. The latter has garnered starting to be realization in recent years, together with high-profile tales within the popular
press, and is a resource of matters for scientists, funders and publishers alike.

About the writer: Pernille Rørth holds a PhD in cellphone biology and genetics. She has led research labs at best associations within the US, in Europe and in Asia, together with the Carnegie Institution for technological know-how (Dept. Embryology) and the ecu Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). With 25 years as an lively scientist, she is senior writer of various research articles, together with a few within the so much prestigious journals in biology. She additionally served as Executive Editor (Editor-in-Chief) of The EMBO magazine for five years. this is often her first novel. She now lives in Copenhagen together with her husband, additionally a scientist.
 

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