We’ve just launched F1000 SmartSearch: a revolutionary article search engine that ‘learns’ as you interact with it.
Certain classes of papers in our trade have a lot of coauthors. Indeed, the average number of coauthors on papers indexed in PubMed has risen from 1.5 to 5 over the last sixty years. No surprise, really, given the nature of research that is being carried out today, where one or two people can not…
A piece of basic research made it into even mainstream news sites yesterday: the finding that the peptide thymosin ß4 can prime adult cardiac epithelium to produce new muscle cells after a heart attack. Getting the heart to regenerate itself after injury is a goal of the British Heart Foundation’s campaign to ‘Mend Broken Hearts’,…
If you can’t afford to go to the badlands of Arizona to discover a new dinosaur, you could always do it from the comfort of your own home–or local museum. Bones from two dinosaurs were recovered from a quarry in Utah in 1994, and taken to the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. This is fortunate…
As you might have seen, I’ve been asking Faculty Members and authors of evaluated papers to say a little about their current research to camera. Recently, Quinn Mitrovich has been talking about intron loss, for example.
A comment thread on one of The Scientist articles gives me the opportunity to mention F1000 Factors. Hidden away in our about pages there’s an explanation of how we calculate the F1000 Factor for evaluated articles. As it says there, Faculty Members rate each article ‘Recommended’, ‘Must Read’ or ‘Exceptional’. These correspond to a number,…
A paper in the Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology describes a simple screening tool (evaluated by Samuel Kariuki) for detecting a mutation in Salmonella enterica that confers resistance to standard treatment options. The point mutation Ser 83–>Tyr or Ser 83–>Phe (TCC–>TAC or TTC, respectively) can be identified using the restriction enzyme SSiI, which recognizes…
