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.
An update on the latest website and behind-the-scenes developments from Jane Hunter, F1000’s managing director.
We are excited to announce that a Faculty of 1000 app is now available to Science Direct subscribers within Elsevier’s SciVerse Applications Gallery, allowing researchers, clinicians and students to easily tap into the collective knowledge of our 10,000 expert Faculty Members while browsing articles on ScienceDirect and Scopus. Once a SciVerse user adds the app,…
In this three minute video, Gordon Fishell at the New York University School of Medicine tells us how for the past ten years his lab has been trying to understand interneuron diversity in the cortex: how brains can expand from ten or so cardinal cell types to the >100 types that populate the mature cortex,…
We had a long discussion this morning about beta blockers. Beta blockers are drugs used to treat various heart-related conditions but particular arrhythmias (when your heart, instead of boom boom, goes boomdiddyboomdebopbipbop or something equally alarming), high blood pressure and angina. They work by inhibiting different classes of so-called adrenergic receptors: the trans-membrane collections of…
There was some serious geeking-out going on in the office just now—at least, in the part where the dev team and myself interact. IT have been wandering around the joint with little white boxes that have aerials sticking out of them, and then Phil came over and asked for my MAC. A little while later…
