Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
Students and scholars in life sciences need to use many skills to survive and excel during scientific training, which involves listening, reading, writing, and speaking.
But I have seen many of them struggle in understanding and learning those skills.
I am a professor in the U.S., a tenured faculty member with MD, PhD degrees.
I will guide you through the skills, so that you will learn and improve successfully in your professional life.
Please visit my website for more information (https://synaptologica.com/), and send me emails with questions, comments or ideas (ideas@synaptologica.com).
Foundational Skills in Life Sciences
38. The journal, Nature, dissects the Abstract structure (mini-series: reading-24)
What is the best way to learn how to read the Abstract of a scientific paper?
In my view, the best way is to learn how the Abstract is structured in any paper.
Today, we will learn it, by reading a very short document. It is a one-page document that describes the Abstract guidelines, provided by the journal, Nature.
Here is the URL that brings you directly to the Nature document:
Here is the URL of the webpage for the Instructions for Authors by Nature. The above document can be found as the hyperlink to the note, “annotated example” in the “Articles” section:
Here are the links to the Milestone Article 1 (Immunity, 2005) by the Laureates, Dr. Katalin Karikó & Dr. Drew Weissman of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023.
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2005.06.008
- PDF: https://www.cell.com/immunity/pdf/S1074-7613(05)00211-6.pdf
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16111635/
(My email is active. But my website is under construction. Please wait for a while. Thank you for the patience!)