http://mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/LENS - A New Way of Looking at Scienceenhttp://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=220http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=220Bill Stead, M.D., does a lot of thinking about connections. As director of Vanderbilt Medical Center's Informatics Center , he's in charge of managing an information technology infrastructure that supports Vanderbilt's patient care, research and educational...http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=217http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=217One of the great transformational moments in biomedical science is happening right now. It's the shift from gene to cell. "I think what we're seeing in this century now is a renewed appreciation for not DNA… but cells as being the secret to life,"...http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=216http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=216U.S. scientists follow yellow brick roads overseas. In a southern corner of Singapore, there is a biomedical research metropolis—fittingly named Biopolis—that wasn't there 10 years ago. Science magazine dubbed the complex a "scientific Emerald...http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=215http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=215There are ominous signs that all is not well in the nation's biomedical research enterprise. Thanks to five years of flat budgets at the National Institutes of Health, which supports the bulk of basic biomedical research in the United States, only about...http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=214http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/lens/article/?id=214During the last century, America soared to the top of the world in science and technology. The United States outstripped all other countries in the number of science-related Nobel prizes awarded, in bringing new biotechnical products to the market, and...