Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with what’s been happening in the world of open science! You’ve heard of the Protein Data Bank, but have you heard of Crystalium? This new open-source database, created by Nanoengineers at the University…
This is a guest post by Microbiology Associate Faculty Member Michelle Leach, University of Toronto, who recently spent a few weeks interning at the BBC Science department. Here, she tells us about her experience and what she learned about disseminating science to a broad lay audience.
Our Faculty write really engaging and interesting articles – here are the best lines from 2014.
We’ll be hosting another #F1000Talks live chat on Wednesday 3rd December, 1pm EST/6PM GMT. Join us to talk about personalized medicine! We’ll be tweeting from @F1000 , using the #F1000Talks hashtag.
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…
The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is a new annual award set up jointly by Science/AAAS and SciLifeLab in order to provide extra encouragement to young scientists as they begin their scientific careers. Applicants submit a 1000-word essay, judged by an independent editorial team on the quality of research and the applicants’ ability…
As our sister journal F1000Research publishes the full experimental results of Kenneth Lee’s attempts to replicate the notorious STAP cell research, we thought we’d chart the story so far…
Those who follow life sciences won’t have failed to pick up on the impact and controversy of two particular papers appearing in Nature at the end of January. The STAP (stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency) studies by Obokata et al. at the Japanese RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology suggested that a lowering of environmental pH, from…
The first #F1000talks live chat had a great audience turnout. We summed up what was discussed with a Storify. We enjoyed interacting with the audience so much that we decided to do it again on February 19! We will announce the topic and special guests shortly.
Guest blogger Sheena Cowell recently completed her PhD thesis in Medicinal Chemistry at Imperial College London. In this guest post, she tells us about the daunting process of writing up and why it doesn’t have to be difficult.
