The Lurie Prize in the Biomedical Sciences is an annual prize awarded by the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH), designed to honour outstanding achievement by a promising scientist age 52 or younger. Now in its second year, the $100,000 award was endowed by global philanthropist and biomedical research advocate Ann Lurie. This…
We are delighted to congratulate Michael Levitt, F1000Prime Faculty Member in Structural Biology, on receiving the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Professor Levitt, who is currently based at the Stanford University School of Medicine and is well known for his pioneering work in computational structural biology, receives this accolade jointly with Arieh Warshel, former Faculty…
*Another* F1000 Faculty Member wins a Nobel Prize! To celebrate, we’ve made our Nobel Laureates’ evaluations free to view for all readers.
The Royal Society is a fellowship of many of the world’s most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering, and medicine. The Society aims to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage its development and use. Each year the Royal Society elects 44 Fellows and 8 Foreign Members, and the…
Our circadian clock’s capacity for DNA damage repair may vary at different times of day.
Structural beauty in metaphase spindle mechanics.
A paper detailing an exciting technical advance, an RNA sequence-fluorophore complex called “Spinach”, garners 14 evaluations, making it one of the all-time highest rated papers on F1000.
An article on the first 3D structure of a sodium channel is currently the most-evaluated paper in F1000’s Neuroscience Faculty this year.
Biological crowding agents can destabilize proteins.
Incorporating artificial bases into DNA: letting evolution take the strain creates a genetic firewall.
