Who is that handsome fellow? It’s one of our Associate F1000 Members (AFMs) wearing the world-famous F1000 T-shirt: Richard Wintle is an AFM in Genomics & Genetics, working with FM Steve Scherer to cover (among other things) the journals Nature Genetics and Genome Research. Richard is assistant director at the Centre for Applied Genomics, The…
Another champagne moment; our 110,000th evaluation went live on the site yesterday. The paper in question is one in Science describing the generation of RNA equivalents of green fluorescent protein, which the authors call Spinach, leading to the line (from the paper), “Spinach is markedly resistant to photobleaching.” Thomas Kodadek in Chemical Biology submitted the…
In case you haven’t seen it already, there’s an intriguing new article in Infection and Immunity, Retracted Science and the Retraction Index. It’s by the Editor in Chief of Infect. Immun. Ferric C. Fang and Arturo Casadevall–Editor in Chief of mBio and long-serving F1000 Member in Medical Microbiology. Fang, with Casadevall, looked at retractions in…
It is with regret that we mark the death of Veronica Ravnikar, Section Head in Women’s Health. Veronica died suddenly but peacefully last month. Our condolences to her family and friends.
A little bit of midweek light relief, from biomatushiq (click to enlarge):
What Bob Dylan sang 47 years ago is still true – especially for the scientific endeavor. We can see many signs of changes occurring on the US side of the pond:
When you’ve got your chromatids together at cytokinesis, how do you separate them again? Here’s a lovely little evaluation from University of Michigan’s Yukiko Yamashita, talking about the protein cohesin, which is apparently involved in the proper segregation, and consequent release, of both chromosomes and centrosomes.
First up, congratulations to Blake Stacey for winning the Name that drug competition. Blake, let me have a mailing address and I’ll put the swag in the post. For this week’s dose of Friday fun, what’s the cleverest or funniest article title you’ve come across? Ian has suggested this 2011 article from Lester Lau of…
The ability to pick up on the non-verbal emotional cues a person gives off is crucial in everyday life; knowing from the look on your boss’s face that today is just not the day to ask for that pay rise could save you an unwanted argument. This is a task that can be tricky at…
F1000 Member of the moment has to be Paul Riley. Not only has he recently published a stunning piece of research, in which a ‘Smart trick’ was used to kick-start adult heart epicardial cells into an embryonic programme such that they were able to produce fully functional cardiomyocytes, but he’s also been awarded a new…
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