We’re making a bit of a noise in various circles (even as far away as the University of Iowa), with our F1000 Posters project. F1000 Posters is, according to independent science writer Joachim Pietzsch, an “invaluable source for scientific information which I really can recommend.” Ivan Oransky, Executive Editor of Reuters Health (and, of course,…
We are are legion. Detection of differential splicing in cancer using gene expression arrays is the 1000th poster to be published at our open poster repository, https://posters.f1000.com/. Gene expression arrays have been a workhorse of biology for a number of years now, and there are vast sets of data. What happens when the same genes,…
Drug discovery isn’t getting any easier. Development of new pharmaceuticals–and improvement of existing ones–is a time-consuming and expensive process. Therefore, maximizing benefits–and reducing side effects–from compounds that already have known medicinal, or proto-medicinal, properties is an attractive option.
My overriding memories of music lessons in school are of a teacher making us hold our breath and ‘deflate like a popped balloon’ every time we were about to sing. Needless to say, it wasn’t my favorite lesson of the day, but then I have never been very musically adept. Thankfully, the use of music…
Why is science so darned difficult? It’s not simply that it takes a lot of hard work and concentrated brain power to really understand even basic scientific principles, but–for experimental scientists, at least–experiments have a tendency to fail in a way that doesn’t provide any useful information.
The last thing I’d want to do when visiting the rather lovely looking Lorne (Victoria, Australia) is spend my time talking about cancer (beach please!). Nonetheless, some good folks with more willpower than me managed to do just that at February’s Lorne Cancer Conference–and what a good job they did.
Much as I often begin blog posts by staring wistfully at a blank word document for 10 minutes, I’m sure many of you are no stranger to musing over a clean white PowerPoint presentation (if that’s that your software of choice), hoping that a concise and graphically beautiful poster may magically appear. Alas, failing a…
No, not something to do with fruit. We’ve been thinking a bit about open data recently, talking to Peter Murray-Rust and Cameron Neylon, and generally kicking around ideas about how we might like to change the world. Again.
After comforting myself that I was using it merely as a reference, and was not in fact the dummy, I have been known to invest my money in one of the For Dummies series of books. From Divorce for Dummies to Building Chicken Coops for Dummies these books are instantly recognizable by their bright yellow…
It’s clearly no longer just the drug of the young, rich and trendy: a decrease in street value over the years has led to a marked rise in usage and availability of cocaine, and it’s an ever-present favourite with the media. The BBC news website alone has dozens of cocaine-related news results since the beginning…
