At a Meeting with Professors

picked up some new terms in a meeting where a group of Professors were discussing grants, Center creation and other such big big things:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/wiggle+room
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=low-hanging%20fruit
NSF portal to publicize any research capability http://www.nsf.gov/div/index.jsp?org=IOS

Journal Impact Factors

JMET (journal of medical engineering and technology)

0.16 when IEEE T-MI had 1.32
http://w3.mkk.szie.hu/~fulop/Res/If/If-e.htm
[Now IEEE T-MI has about IF = 4]
http://www.ieee-tmi.org/
On Eigenfactor scale, JMET has 34 where IEEE TMI is 76
http://www.eigenfactor.org/detail.php?year=2001&jrlname=J%20MED%20ENG%20TECHNOL&issnnum=0309-1902

Journal of Virological Methods

2.1
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/506080/description#description
compare to top journal in field of Virology: Journal of Virology (Impact Factor: 5.3)

http://jvi.asm.org/misc/about.dtl

Ranking of Journals in Electrical Engg

http://in-cites.com/research/2006/january_30_2006-1.html
IEEE TMI is very high on list

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging
open access journal
Impact Factor not published

PCR... now real time

Related: Previous post on PCR inventor's speech at the Nobel prize ceremony

Article on Oncolytic Viruses

China Approves World's First Oncolytic Virus Therapy For Cancer Treatment

Ken Garber

Oncolytic virus research got a welcome boost last November when Chinese regulators approved the world's first oncolytic viral therapy for cancer, Shanghai Sunway Biotech's genetically modified adenovirus H101.

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006

The History of the Plaque Assay

First Idea for Search "Plaque Assay Merits"

• Original Plaque Assay idea by Jerne (1963) - 3D Agar Gel
• Modified by Cunningham (1965) to make monolayer - < Link>
• Review paper by Jerne (1974) - Transplantation Reviews, Volume: 18, Date: 1974: the article on "Plaque forming cells: methodology and theory."  -  Author: Jerne, N Kat Page: 130 
  It is a Citation Classic <link >
• Original information about these papers from paper on "Production of Monolayer Plaque Assay Slides." (1981) < Link> Newman>
  
• Jerne Nobel Prize (1984) possibly for work on Immune System < link >

Next idea for Search "Improvements on Plaque Assay" (few links) / "Comparison of Virus Estimation Techniques" (some links on Google) / 
 - led to finding other methods

 - (keywords: PFU, plaque, TCID50, Vi-CELL )