Beat Ebola with better research sharing, says the discoverer of virus.
To mark World Malaria Day, Phil Fischer highlights the problems faced by those fighting the disease around the world.
The link between gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis is revisited in a recently evaluated paper.
Among scientists who have experimented on themselves, Barry Marshall’s story is, literally, stomach-turning. His Nobel-winning paper is evaluated on F1000.
We’re a smidgen the other side of the summer solstice; the days are long and bright and the air is thick with the scent of strawberries, chilled rose wine and barbeques… reason to be cheerful one would think?
I’ve been following the developing story of NDM-1, an enzyme that confers antibiotic resistance to gram-negative bacteria, since before the first article on its appearance was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases in August last year (see F1000 evaluations). At the time, many of the cases of infection in India – but not all –…
On Monday we reported on a trial showing that early retroviral treatment can protect partners of HIV-infected individuals. The findings are so good that the data were released early by the interim review board. This must put a smile on the face of Anthony Fauci, who has made great contributions to understanding how HIV destroys…
The BBC reports that life expectancy is on the rise in the UK–despite all those pies, chips and beer. It cites a paper by David Leon of the London School of hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Trends in European life expectancy: a salutary view (open access: 10.1093/ije/dyr061). While I’m not…
Critical differences between the human immune system and that of other primates, such as chimpanzees and rhesus macaques, lead to humans being more susceptible to a number of infectious agents including HIV and malaria. Now, the first genome-wide functional comparison in chimps, macaques and humans reveals changes in immune system gene expression that could explain…
