Associate Faculty Member and F1000 Specialist Jeffrey Hannah recently attended the New York Academy of Sciences meeting on Harnessing the potential of genome editing for drug discovery: translational frontiers of in vitro and in vivo applications. Here, he tells us about the rapidly expanding uses of the technology and what he learnt in the session.
The researcher stared at a writhing star-shaped mass of tentacle-like appendages, each with a mouth and teeth, and with a few of these severing themselves in half and carrying on individually … Readers would be forgiven for assuming this was the sighting of a cosmic entity at the end of a Lovecraft novella, except the…
A guest post by Alberto Perez
All members of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) can claim full and free access to F1000Prime until the end of April 2014. This newly developed partnership with the Society gives six months free access to F1000Prime for current members, as a benefit of society membership. New members joining the ISCB before April 2014…
In September, the US National Institutes of Health announced the winners of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, a grant for future research aimed at “supporting individual scientists of exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering – and possibly transforming – approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research”. We’re delighted that among the recipients this year…
Genomics & Genetics Head of Faculty Rudolf Jaenisch on his research into reprogramming somatic cells
We would like to congratulate Joachim Messing, Faculty Member in Genomics & Genetics, on being awarded the 2013 Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his contributions to the field of genetic engineering. His work at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, of which he is Director, Rutgers University, New Jersey, has earned him this accolade “for innovations…
Sue Malcolm, Faculty Member in Genomics & Genetics, examines the issues behind the UK government’s plans to sequence a patient’s entire genome.
The molecular basis of the yearning for yeasty concoctions.
And top-tier journals did not want to publish this surprising study.
