Faculty of 1000 Oncology Section Head Matti Aapro is a medical oncologist based at the Clinique de Genolier in Switzerland. In this video, he highlights a couple of important presentations at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm.
We’d like to congratulate the following F1000 Members, who have just been elected to EMBO. Bernard de Massy, Cell Biology Santiago Elena, Ecology Ian Hickson, Cell Biology Edvard I Moser, Neuroscience Maria Rescigno, Immunology David C Rubinsztein, Genomics & Genetics Norbert Perrimon, Developmental Biology
F1000 Member Jacques Bernier is a radiation oncologist. Here at the ESMO ECCO meeting in Stockholm he tells us of recent developments in head and neck oncology, specifically chemoradiation, radiation therapy with targeted therapy (Cetuximab), and combinations of the two. Chemoradiation therapy is significantly more efficacious than radiation therapy alone, but long-term complications in surviving…
Cathryn Denner ponders a poster reporting Australian claims that Vitamin B3 can reduce skin cancer.
What’s new and exciting this week? The London Science Festival, the largest event of its kind, takes off!
Given a difficult or dangerous task, or one in an environment not easily accessible to humans, we can usually find a robot or machine to do the job instead. Robotic surgery and space and underwater research are all examples of this. Likewise, if we lose a limb it can be replaced with a high tech…
Ferdinando Boero is a F1000 Member in Ecology. Here, he presents his impressions from a large biodiversity meeting in Aberdeen.
After the excitement of the Nobels last week, we’d also like to extend our warmest congratulations to F1000 Members Carlos Bustamante (Genomics & Genetics) and Tamar Schlick (Structural Biology), who last week were appointed 2012 Fellows of the Biophysical Society. Fellowships are awarded based on the Fellows’ “demonstrated excellence in science, contributions to the expansion…
Among scientists who have experimented on themselves, Barry Marshall’s story is, literally, stomach-turning. His Nobel-winning paper is evaluated on F1000.
How valuable is an iPad in the lab? And could it know when it was stolen? An F1000 poster takes a look.
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