Far be it from us here at The Scientist to recommend that you sit in front of the idiot box when you undoubtedly have so much work to do, but…if you simply must boob out, at least make the experience educational. This coming Tuesday night on the Science Channel, check out the premier of “Monster…
Probing the behaviour of anything inside a cell can be a bit tricky. Jaideep Mathur, at the University of Guelph, Ontario, has come up with a series of photoconvertible fluorescent probes that can be used inside plant cells. Mathur uses them to study the insides of plant cells. One of these probes is an F-actin…
I recently talked to a fellow scientist about grants, and he commented that he’d seen push-back over the notion that you must market your work to get funding. Many people seem to confuse marketing with hyped-up used-car ads or get rich quick schemes. Yes, marketing is sometimes used for those purposes – but it is…
April’s issue of The Scientist magazine will be out in ten days, and it’s a cancer special. You’re in for a treat, and there’s a super article by Keith Flaherty on melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. While prepping some material for the issue I came across an intriguing evaluation in F1000: Reduced Melanoma…
This week’s news includes a guilty plea from the murderer of a Yale graduate student, a widespread effort by pharma to help Japan, a new drug for a fatal lung disease, gene therapy hope for Parkinson’s patients, stem cell promise for enlarged hearts, and an unexpected home range for a South American wild cat.
The problem of the under-representation of women at the higher levels of science is a thorny one. Despite the biological sciences at least churning out roughly equal numbers of male and female PhDs, there are still far fewer women in senior positions than might be expected.
The BBC reports that life expectancy is on the rise in the UK–despite all those pies, chips and beer. It cites a paper by David Leon of the London School of hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Trends in European life expectancy: a salutary view (open access: 10.1093/ije/dyr061). While I’m not…
F1000 is pleased to be able to sponsor this month’s stem cell-themed blog contest from Science 3.0. Get writing for a chance to win a bag full of F1000 swag!
A couple of weeks ago we had Liz Allen and Claire Vaughan talking about the way the Wellcome Trust assesses its own funding impacts. We’ve been a bit more directly involved with the Medical Research Council (MRC) and how they’re assessing their own grants; working with them to match papers arising from MRC-funded research to…
While checking out Thomson Reuters’ Science Watch I checked to see if their ‘hottest’ scientists from last year (citation-based) were anything like the ones we might choose if we were to have an F1000 top scientist list (evaluation-based). Their number one slot for 2010 goes to Eric S. Lander, who contributed to ten ‘hot’ papers…
