When scientists behave like spammers.
While we would like to congratulate Section Head in Innate Immunity Jules Hoffmann on sharing this year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine, we are also saddened to learn of the death of co-laureate Ralph Steinman. We hope that the Nobel Assembly will stand by their decision to award the prize to Steinman. Update: I’m happy to…
We’re a little bit rushed this gorgeously sunny Friday afternoon at F1000 HQ in London. We’re releasing our rankings to the world in beta form on Monday, and are still ironing out a few wrinkles. But with a bit of pixie dust and a following wind, it’s all going to be good. I have just…
F1000 Member Edvard Moser of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, was also at the EMBO 2011 meeting in Vienna. He works on how the brain generates a “map” of space. Kathleen got him to tell us about the discovery of grid cells and the amazing things that happen when rats navigate a changing…
F1000 Section Head Brett Finlay gave a talk at the EMBO 2011 meeting in Vienna, on microbiota. Here he tells us why this new field is so exciting. read Faculty of 1000 because you’re going to get lots of interesting hits… (Edit: Brett even has an IMDB entry!)
What’s the link between our economic woes and being able to do science?
And does it matter? There’s a long discussion on the F1000 website about a paper in PLoS Biology on the number of species in the world. Robert May seems to think that the first question a visiting alien species might ask us is, “How many distinct life forms—species—does your planet have?”–rather than the more practical…
The tricky question of data sharing, reuse and openness is a familiar topic to regular readers of Naturally Selected: see previous posts gathered here, here and here. So we were interested to see a news article in Nature by Zoë Corbyn yesterday, Researchers failing to make raw data public. The article highlights a paper in…
Our congratulations to two of our F1000 Members, Art Horwich and Ulrich Hartl, who have jointly been awarded the 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Art and Ulrich have been with Faculty of 1000 since the very beginning, in July 2001. The Award is in recognition of their work on protein folding, specifically their…
Probiotics, live microbial supplements marketed on the basis of improving the microbial “balance” in the human gut, account for a growing market–perhaps 10 billion Euro in Europe alone(source). While probiotics are apparently a market (and marketing success)–indeed it’s getting ever more difficult to buy yogurt that isn’t probiotic–whether there is even such a thing as…
