Predicting flu vaccine effectiveness

Veljko Veljkovic, Biomed Protection, and Slobodan Paessler, Galveston National Laboratory, have published articles on F1000Research in which they predicted the effectivemess of the flu vaccine in 2017/2018 and 2018/2019. In this guest blog they explain how they went about this and how accurate their predictions were.

Registered Reports to support reproducibility – an author and reviewer in conversation

Late last year, we published the first Stage 1 Registered Report on F1000Research. Publishing Registered Reports is believed to increase the rigor around the scientific method, which supports reproducibility. We interviewed the lead author, Julius Emmrich, Charité, Germany and one of the article’s reviewers, Ádám Dénes, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, to get an insight into their views on this way of improving experimental design.

Removing the stress of lost files

Product Manger, João Peres, introduces one of the newest F1000Workspace features that could help alleviate some of the stress around those hair-raising moments when your files disappear. The new auto-backup feature means that you will always have a version of your work that you can always go back to.

Exploring a different perspective on panic disorder

Giampaolo Perna, Humanitas University, Italy, is a psychiatrist who has focussed his research on panic disorders. In a recent Faculty Review, he and his co-author, Daniela Caldirola, present a new hypothesis about the pathology of panic disorder. In this guest blog he elaborates on this and the evidence needed to prove this hypothesis.