Congratulations go to Goncalo Abecasis, F1000Prime Faculty Member in the Physiogenomics section of the Physiology Faculty, who has been awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) last Tuesday. The Overton Prize is awarded each year by the ISCB to a scientist “who is recognized for outstanding accomplishment and significant contribution…
Congratulations to Lewis Cantley, Section Head of the Cell Signalling section in Cell Biology, on being one of the first recipients of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences last Wednesday.
A recent article recommended six times on F1000Prime describes two species of Acomys that shed and regenerate skin as a predator evasion technique – a rare trait in mammals.
We recently guest-posted on Terrapinn’s VaccineNation blog about the likelihood of avian flu being transmitted to humans. Here’s an excerpt of the post.
