Michael Hanke has published three articles about Studyforrest – a neuroscience project involving the film Forrest Gump – on F1000Research. In this guest blog, he explains to us what the project is about and how it relates to the the multi-award winning film.
So, you have a great idea for a research project. Now you need funding to make it happen. But how? Where? From whom? Here, João Peres and Tiago Barros share their experiences of applying for research funding in order to help others embarking on the same journey.
Our Editorial Director, Sabina Alam, discusses what is different about our peer review model. She highlights how we have put authors in control of the peer review process and ensure that all reviewers get credit for their work.
Christina Halsey is March’s featured Faculty Member of the Month, a bit earlier in the month than usual but we are publishing today to coincide with International Women’s Day. Christina has Section Head for Pediatric Hematology in the Hematology Faculty since December 2015. Section Heads are leading experts in their field and are responsible for dividing their Section into topics and selecting suitable Faculty Members who will review the literature in each of the topic areas.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, spring has just sprung and nothing signifies this season more than spring chickens. The feathered fowl generated quite a few headlines in February after researchers from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh published a paper in Development about producing gene-edited chickens as a way of preserving rare breeds. In a nod to this work, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles in the area of gene editing in this month’s blog post as well as the usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of Open Science! The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has selected its first cohort of 47 investigators and is requiring them to share their work as pre-prints.…
In this guest post, author Benjamin Haibe-Kains talks about the need for better integrative analysis frameworks to leverage the plethora of large pharmacogenomic studies available to date. He believes that preprint servers, as well as open access publishing venues with transparent pre- and post-publication peer-review, such as F1000Research, will be crucial to ensure proper dissemination of data and analysis results in the active field of cancer pharmacogenomic research.
Here at F1000Prime we are grateful for the work of our Faculty; without them we wouldn’t exist. They provide recommendations for articles along with explanations for their choices, identifying key papers week in, week out.
Our Section Heads work hard to ensure the scope of their Sections truly reflect their fields and we are pleased to announce some new appointments.
Happy Chinese New Year 2017 – The Year of the Rooster. To celebrate, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles by Chinese authors covering a wide range of topics in this month’s blog post as well as usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
Today is World Cancer Day. In light of this, we asked Elaine Holmes, Member of our Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty, to give us an overview of biomarkers of cancer. Globally, cancer is among the leading causes of death with the number of new cases projected to rise to 22 million over the next two decades. …
