To my best knowledge there is only one life-science BBS similar to this one on the entire Internet, and its not very much frequented. Where are all the people, which should discuss and exchange diffrent views and aspects of their research with each other? Imagine how diabetes, alzheimer, schizophrenia, genethereaphy or cancer research would improve WorldWide if people working in those and similar fields were organised in a BBS like ours.
The only lifescience BBS I know about is
http://www.scienceboard.net. It would not be very hard to create a better one and more frequented. I stongly suspect that many lifescientist don´t like computers to much and have rudimentary knowledge of them. They dont have the imagination or will to go out on for example Google and search for life science BBS´es, becouse they don´t even know they could exist, or that they could be very beneficial to them and their research.
I suggest we create a Big Life Science BBS with diffrent subgroups. Hopefully it will totaly dominate as Lifescience BBS on the net. It should include a pamphlette in .pdf format which every member of the BBS should print out and put on their institutions or companies advertisingboard. The pamphlette should inform about the URL of the boards and the possibilities to discuss lifescience with other lifescientists. Since most of us want to find a job it should include a job-advertising-section, that would attract those who are not acctually interested in the research they are doing, but want to get a steady income. Some kind of weekly life science-news section would also be good to have that would attract visitors who have nothing to do during coffeebreaks. Well you could sure think of more good sections...
The benefits of this boards could be:
*Worldwide lifescience research improvement and exchange of thoughts. We would have the possibility to discuss with for example specialist in genetheraphy which would not come to normal Immist conferance if they are not specialy interested in antiaging.
*Informing and attracting people to the antiaging field who otherwise would never even thought about slowing down or reversing aging.
Edited by wolfram, 22 January 2005 - 08:36 AM.