The F1000 roving camera was at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this week (you can get a somewhat peculiar take on the proceedings from my friend Tideliar). Faculty Member Randy Nelson, of Ohio State University, spoke to Sarah Greene about his recent work published in PNAS, which uncovered a potentially disturbing link between light at…
We’re pleased to welcome Stephen Brimijoin to the Faculty. Steve is at the Mayo Clinic and has come up with a method of—hopefully—preventing former drug users from relapsing. He’s now received a ‘substantial’ grant to transfer the method from a rat model into humans. Cocaine-destroying engines
Professor David Nutt was famously sacked from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs by the UK’s Labour Government at the time, apparently for being rational about scientific evidence. He now chairs the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs, and is head of the Department of Neuropsychopharmacology and Molecular Imaging, Imperial College London. He is…
Last week we published an evaluation by Gabriele Sorci of the Université de Bourgogne, on a paper in The American Naturalist titled “Hidden consequences of living in a wormy world: nematode-induced immune suppression facilitates tuberculosis invasion in African buffalo.” African buffalo can be infected by nematodes and tuberculosis. The nematodes suppress the host Th1-type immune…
Bruce Cronstein is a Section Head in Immunopharmacology & Hematologic Pharmacology, in our Pharmacology and Drug Discovery faculty. Here he’s talking to Sarah Greene about his work on adenosine receptors. Like many things in science, it’s taken us off in odd directions Bruce is known for showing that anti-inflammatory drugs such as methotrexate work by…
In this three minute video, Gordon Fishell at the New York University School of Medicine tells us how for the past ten years his lab has been trying to understand interneuron diversity in the cortex: how brains can expand from ten or so cardinal cell types to the >100 types that populate the mature cortex,…
if you make a discovery, there’s no other way to gain the confidence that you can make a discovery Martin Raff (read his profile at The Scientist) gives advice to young scientists. He says that it’s important to do something great early in your career, to boost confidence; which means placing yourself in a position…
Our intrepid reporters Kathleen and Edyta also managed to track down one of our Faculty Members at the EMBO Meeting in Barcelona. Fred Wittinghofer is head of the Department of Structural Biology at the Max Planck Institute in Dortmund. For 25 years he has worked on GTP-binding proteins. Here he talks about ciliary transport and…
Elizabeth Blackburn, FRS, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009, and F1000 International Advisory Board Member, gave a Keynote Lecture at the recent EMBO 2010 meeting in Barcelona. Edyta Zielinska and Kathleen Wets were lucky enough to catch her briefly between engagements to hear about her current research. This is the first of three videos…
Roger Pertwee is one of our newer Faculty Members, in Pharmacology and Drug Discovery. Back in March he reviewed a paper that showed a non-psychoactive (where’s the fun in that?) component of cannabis can reduce metastasis by inhibiting the activity of a matrix metalloproteinase (free link). He’s now been quoted in the Daily Telegraph as…
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