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Articles by Yuri Lazebnik
Enosis: Life Uniting to Prosper and Kill
You are already at the latest version This article introduces the concept of enosis – the ability of life forms to adapt by accessing each other’s molecules, structures, information and other contents – and discusses the roots and implications of this concept using cancer and cancer therapy as a case study. cell theory ; cell-cell communication ; cancer ; intercellular bridges.
Science with no fiction: measuring the veracity of scientific reports by citation analysis
Science with no fiction: measuring the veracity of scientific reports by citation analysis Peter Grabitz, Yuri Lazebnik, Joshua Nicholson, Sean Rife bioRxiv 172940; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/172940
Are scientists a workforce? - Or, how Dr. Frankenstein made biomedical research sick
“You manage things, you lead people.”Grace (“Amazing Grace”) Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist and US Navy Rear Admiral Some time ago, I was reading Science's Careers and cringed at the title “Can NIH renovate the biomedical workforce?”. The problem was the word “workforce”, since its Russian equivalent was used by the Communist Party leadership to describe other citizens of the Soviet Union—where I grew up—whom they viewed as mere cogs in a machine at the Party's disposal.
Can a biologist fix a radio?-Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis
As a freshly minted Assistant Professor, I feared that everything in my field would be discovered before I even had a chance to set up my laboratory. Indeed, the field of apoptosis, which I had recently joined, was developing at a mind-boggling speed.
The R-Factor: A Measure of Scientific Veracity
Scientists, institutions and journals have been increasingly evaluated statistically, by metrics that focus on the number of published reports rather than on their content, raising a concern that this approach interferes with the progress of biomedical research. To offset this effect, we propose to use the R-factor, a metric that indicates whether a report or its conclusions have been verified.
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