The researcher stared at a writhing star-shaped mass of tentacle-like appendages, each with a mouth and teeth, and with a few of these severing themselves in half and carrying on individually … Readers would be forgiven for assuming this was the sighting of a cosmic entity at the end of a Lovecraft novella, except the…
It’s now been more than five months since Obokata et al. published the two “Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency” or ‘STAP cell’ papers in Nature that would cause such soul-searching in the scientific community. We first covered the controversy surrounding the papers, and how it was reflected in the recommendations and dissents…
On 22nd April this year, four distinguished experts — F1000Prime International Advisory Board Member Bruce Alberts of the University of California, San Francisco, Marc W. Kirschner of Harvard Medical School, Shirley Tilghman of Princeton University, and Harold Varmus of the National Cancer Institute — issued a call to action. Their perspective article, ‘Rescuing US biomedical…
As our sister journal F1000Research publishes the full experimental results of Kenneth Lee’s attempts to replicate the notorious STAP cell research, we thought we’d chart the story so far…
A guest post by Alberto Perez
A recent article recommended six times on F1000Prime describes two species of Acomys that shed and regenerate skin as a predator evasion technique – a rare trait in mammals.
Exciting things are kicking off here at F1000. At the start of this year, we announced our plans to develop a new project – F1000 Research – an attempt to create a new open access, open data publishing model within biology and medicine, with open and transparent peer review. Well, we’re pleased to announce that…
Many are quick to criticize the peer review process, but are there any viable alternatives?
Why people desire but reject creative ideas.
