Biology

For this month’s Optimum F1000Prime, and in celebration of World Blood Donor Day today, we thought we would explore the colourful history of the first blood transfusions, topped-off with a roundup of some of the best F1000Prime blood transfusion-related research.

Jerome Fleg is our Faculty Member of the Month. In this blog he talks to us about his career, research and experience of being an F1000Prime Faculty Member. He also tells about the new edition of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly, which he edited along with fellow F1000Prime Faculty Member, Wilbert Aronow, and Michael Rich, who has published on F1000Research.

Donatella Valdembri is our Associate Faculty Member of the Month. She works with Guido Serini to evaluate the literature relevant to their research interests. Her research interests are the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which endothelial cell polarity is established and maintained by means of endo-exocytic traffic and Golgi secretion.

It is stress awareness month so we’re talking about how stress can impact you at the cellular level. Check out Optimum F1000Prime for a roundup of some of the best stress related research. Also our usual top three articles for the month; and our Hidden Jewels. Click on the images for full access to the recommendations.

If you feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of research papers published in your field, then you are not alone.  You may be suffering from Research FOMO –the fear of missing out on key research. Don’t worry, F1000Prime has the perfect remedy.

Nick Riddiford is a postdoc in developmental biology in Institut Curie in Paris. Last year he surveyed scientists to find out more about their working practices. He published his results on F1000Research as a research article. He explains more here about why he carried out the survey and what he thinks needs to change.