Roger Pertwee is one of our newer Faculty Members, in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery. Back in March he reviewed a paper that showed a non-psychoactive (where’s the fun in that?) component of cannabis can reduce metastasis by inhibiting the activity of a matrix metalloproteinase (free link). He’s now been quoted in the Daily Telegraph as…

A couple of months ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Ernesto Di Mauro of the Universit

One of the things that came out of Liz Allen’s paper on expert review and bibliometrics in PLoS ONE last year was that we at F1000 often ‘miss’ highly-cited papers. Some people appear to think that this means “post-publication peer review” (PPPR) is spotty and unreliable, and while we may indeed miss some papers, especially…

If I were a visitor from another world, what would be my impression of how we do science? First the good news. As we noted yesterday, the number of PhDs achieved by women in the US, across all disciplines, exceeded the number obtained for men. The distribution is reasonably field specific, as you can tell…

Last year marked the first year that more women than men finished their doctoral degrees in the United States, according to The Washington Post. It’s a trend that’s been changing for decades, with the proportion of women rising throughout the educational sphere. Indeed, women already had a 3-to-2 majority at the undergraduate and graduate levels.…

ESC funding flip flop The embryonic stem cell community is in a bit of a frenzy as last Tuesday the court initially upheld its decision to ban federal funding for the research, and then just 2 days later suspended the funding freeze until it has time to further consider the case. In the meantime, the…

Following on from saying how great Flickr is for when your hard drive fails, we’re wondering how you use social media. Please check all that you use ‘frequently’, say more than a few times a month. [poll id=”8″]

Interactivity at the Natural History Museum, London Bob’s article last week about the wonderful paintings at the Natural History Museum attracted a comment from ‘Mary B’ in Cambridge, Mass., telling us about the glass sculptures at Harvard’s Natural History Museum. There are some lovely photos of the sculptures, some of which it’s difficult to believe…

When you say ‘Everglades’ to me I immediately think of hovercrafts, James Bond and alligators. Of course there’s more than that, not least because it’s an interesting system from an ecological point of view. It has been a mystery, for example, how stable patterns of ridges and sloughs parallel to the flow of water form.…

Are 20-30% of children really not the biological offspring of their legal fathers? In this final installment, Etienne Joly talks about his interest in speciation and inbreeding, and how this led him to discover the truth behind the myth of misattributed paternity. I basically closed my door and started downloading loads and loads and loads…