To find life outside of Earth, we need to know under what sort of extreme conditions organisms are still able to thrive. When it comes to halophilic archaea, James Coker and Aida Moran-Reyna have now shown the effects of extreme pH levels on the archaea’s transcriptome. Coker shares more about the research in the interview…
Jia Shen is a Chinese researcher in Los Angeles, who is currently helping F1000Research to reach out to the Chinese research community. Among other things, she has translated various materials for us, and you can see some of her translation work if you access the F1000Research homepage from China. In the interview below, Jia shares…
How can you tell the difference between two proteins if the antibodies are not specific? This was a problem that researchers studying the cortex came across when determining the function of Otx2. In a recent F1000Research article, researchers from France and Italy found a solution. In this interview, one of the study’s authors, Alain Prochiantz…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. First of all, we hope you’ve all had time to check our our brand new homepage design. This new design includes not just the weekly featured article, but also regularly updated featured…
This week’s round-up of open science news: It’s Back To School season, and you, too, can get back in the (virtual) school benches with two free online courses that cover open science: Open knowledge: changing the global course of learning (Stanford OpenEdX, Sept 2 – Dec 12) Open Research (P2PU.org, registration closes Sept 12, course…
Today we launched a new design of part of our website, including the homepage and navigation menu. Please have a look, and let us know in the comments below what you think. A few of the changes: Chinese-language homepage. If you’re accessing our website from China or other Chinese speaking countries, you will see site…
A day later due to the UK bank holiday, but here is this week’s selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured article: An evolutionarily significant unicellular strategy in response to starvation stress in Dictyostelium social amoebae. Darja Dubravcic, Minus…
What was new in open science this week? CGIAR is running a competition “to find new, enticing and innovative online ways to present CGIAR research facts, figures and open data sources”. After the Open Source Pharma conference, attendees launched a Thunderclap to draw more attention to the need for open source drug development. The CASRAI…
As I posted earlier this year, I have been co-chairing the CASRAI Peer Review Services Working Group together with Laura Paglione (Technical Director, ORCID) to look at the best way to recognise referee reports as a formal output in for example an ORCID profile. This project has looked at the peer review of a wide…
Do you create and present posters at scientific conferences? We thought so. Posters are one of the key ways early research is disseminated. Academic Editor, Researcher and F1000 Specialist Nicholas Rowe explains the important role posters play and why we need to pay more attention to them. In our professional and academic roles, we often…
