Category: Guest Blog
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Crowdfunding Healthcare Logistics
UC Berkeley and health entrepreneurs use crowdfunding and technology to bring innovative solutions to healthcare, and do some good in the process: By Ryan McQuaid, Founder of PlushCare I’ve observed over the past 3-4 years that technologists want doctors to do more for less or they want to throw an app or device…
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Stuck on a Protocol? A Simple Click Will Do the Trick
Video demonstrations for online scientific articles are now just one click away. By Phil Meagher at JoVE (the Journal of Visualized Experiments) Communicating scientific protocols is difficult. Word count limitations result in ambiguous protocols and techniques are becoming increasingly cross-disciplinary and complicated. As a result, reproducing experiments is frustrating. But there is a solution.…
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Cutting-edge research into Parkinson’s turns to Crowdfunding
Here at Mendeley we’re always interested in new ways that technology and social media can facilitate important research. Crowdfunding is one booming area that certainly brings those elements together, often in favour of some pretty awesome and worthy causes. So we thought we’d invite the folks at Indiegogo, the world’s largest crowdfunding platform, to…
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Meet our January Advisor of the Month!
Congratulations and thank you to Sjúrður Hammer! Sjúrður is a PhD Student at the University of Glasgow. Originally from the Faroe Islands, he did his undergraduate degree in Aberdeen and studies the great skua (Stercorarius skua), a “bad-ass predatory seabird,” he said. An early adopter all around, he started using Mendeley in 2008, and became…
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See in JoVE how nest building can indicate the well-being of lab mice
We’re pleased to have another guest post by the team at JoVE (The Journal of Visualized Experiments). This month’s featured article explores how the way that lab mice build their nests can provide a useful indication of their welfare. The video format is a great way to convey all the subtle behavioural nuances that…
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