With sadness, we mark the passing of Alan Hall, Head of the Cell Biology Faculty since the beginnings of F1000 in 2001. Alan was the Chairman of the Cell Biology Program at Sloan-Kettering, as well as editor in chief of the Journal of Cell Biology. He was best known for his discovery that Rho, a…
Last week, the Royal Society announced its New Fellows for 2015. In the same week, the National Academy of Sciences announced its New Members and Foreign Associates. Both are highly prestigious and coveted honours, with eminent and celebrated scientists in their ranks. With this in mind, we are extremely pleased to announce that a number…
Tudor Badea, Faculty Member in Neuroscience, is a neuroscientist at the National Eye Institute at the NIH in Bethesda. Recently, F1000 Publisher Kathleen Wets visited him, and took this video of him talking about his research into ascertaining how retinal ganglion cells, cells that transmit the signal from the eye to the brain, participate in…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
[pullquote]”We believe that if we can identify oligomers that can fold and function in the same ways as peptides and proteins do, these can be used for tremendous therapeutic benefit and would have the additional advantage of enhanced chemical diversity and enhanced stability in biological systems.”[/pullquote] Kent Kirshenbaum, professor of chemistry at New York University,…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
We had a lot of fun attending #EB2015 in Boston. We met many old friends and made firm new ones, including #EBmouse. Here are our highlights from the conference…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.