While more than 18,000 cancer researchers are gathered in San Diego for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting this week, we’re highlighting the most influential research articles in oncology in 2013 and a prestigious award for one of our Heads of Faculty. Prof. Bob Pinedo, Professor of Medical Oncology, Free University (VUMC) Amsterdam,…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
The most comprehensive analysis to date finds that F1000Prime-recommended articles receive more citations compared to other articles, and that a higher F1000Prime score is associated with higher numbers of citations. Assuming these findings stand the test of peer review, now is the time to focus on new questions about how we assess the impact and…
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…
Last Wednesday 26th March, F1000 invited local life scientists and clinicians to Cambridge’s Baroosh for an evening of talking publishing and science, as well as to learn how F1000 are striving to provide solutions to common problems in scholarly communication.
The Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences is an annual prize awarded by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), designed to honour outstanding achievement by a promising scientist age 52 or younger. Now in its second year, the $100,000 award was endowed by global philanthropist and biomedical research advocate Ann Lurie. This…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
This is a guest post from Yan Zheng, an F1000Specialist. Yan graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine with a PhD in the Biomedical Sciences. Currently, Yan is doing a postdoc at New York University’s Langone Medical Center. Here, Yan interviews Pamela Stanley about her career path that led to her current research interests. Pamela…
Marvier vs. Soulé on maximizing biodiversity outcomes: conservationists, whose side are you on? https://t.co/4jdPxzndct — F1000Prime (@F1000) March 19, 2014 Staying one step ahead of death: four new biomarkers that can predict all-cause mortality. https://t.co/VQOPMsOBdv — F1000Prime (@F1000) March 18, 2014 Drink responsibly: moderate alcohol intake doesn't affect menstrual cycle but could disrupt reproductive function.…
Following yesterday’s UK budget announcement by Chancellor George Osborne, we look at the implications for UK life scientists and those thinking of embarking on a PhD.
