Christina Halsey is March’s featured Faculty Member of the Month, a bit earlier in the month than usual but we are publishing today to coincide with International Women’s Day. Christina has Section Head for Pediatric Hematology in the Hematology Faculty since December 2015. Section Heads are leading experts in their field and are responsible for dividing their Section into topics and selecting suitable Faculty Members who will review the literature in each of the topic areas.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, spring has just sprung and nothing signifies this season more than spring chickens. The feathered fowl generated quite a few headlines in February after researchers from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh published a paper in Development about producing gene-edited chickens as a way of preserving rare breeds. In a nod to this work, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles in the area of gene editing in this month’s blog post as well as the usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
Lars Lund is February’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. He has been a Member of the Cardiovascular Disorders Faculty since April 2015. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
Here at F1000Prime we are grateful for the work of our Faculty; without them we wouldn’t exist. They provide recommendations for articles along with explanations for their choices, identifying key papers week in, week out.
Our Section Heads work hard to ensure the scope of their Sections truly reflect their fields and we are pleased to announce some new appointments.
Happy Chinese New Year 2017 – The Year of the Rooster. To celebrate, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles by Chinese authors covering a wide range of topics in this month’s blog post as well as usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
Today is World Cancer Day. In light of this, we asked Elaine Holmes, Member of our Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty, to give us an overview of biomarkers of cancer. Globally, cancer is among the leading causes of death with the number of new cases projected to rise to 22 million over the next two decades. …
We are delighted to announce the appointment of David Lipman, Janet Thornton and Alfonso Valenciaas our Heads of Faculty for the Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics & Computational Biology Faculty.
Anja Bielinsky is January’s featured Faculty Member of the Month. She has been a Member of the Cell Biology Faculty since March 2012. Faculty Members (FMs) are acknowledged experts invited to recommend the articles that are included in F1000Prime. They review the articles, write brief comments, and score the articles.
Over the past decade, there has been a massive drive to improve the efficiency, and understand the impact, of research and Researchfish® was born from this. Developed by the UK’s Medical Research Council, and quickly adopted by all the UK Research Councils and a number of other major funding agencies and institutions across the world, Researchfish today provides the world’s most commonly used grant output and impact tracking platform. F1000Prime has now partnered with Researchfish to help track the impact of research outputs.
Today is annual World AIDS Day: an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and to commemorate people who have died. We spoke to one of the Heads of our Infectious Diseases Faculty, Dr. Robert C. Gallo, who became world famous in 1984 for the co-discovery…
