Featured F1000Prime Report: developing tools for malaria surveillance.

From this month’s batch of F1000Prime Reports, the peer-reviewed open-access review series on emerging themes in biology and medicine, we thought we’d feature a report dealing with one of the deadliest killers in human history: malaria. In “Research priorities for the development and implementation of serological tools for malaria surveillance“, James Beeson and colleagues take…

Sex and horror: the surprising lives of nematodes.

The researcher stared at a writhing star-shaped mass of tentacle-like appendages, each with a mouth and teeth, and with a few of these severing themselves in half and carrying on individually … Readers would be forgiven for assuming this was the sighting of a cosmic entity at the end of a Lovecraft novella, except the…

Optogenetics for the rest of us

Adapted from a recent press release Controlling brain circuits with light: F1000 Biology Reports takes a look at the story behind the invention of optogenetics Last week we published, in our open access, peer-reviewed journal F1000 Biology Reports, the open access, an historical account of the beginnings of the optogenetic revolution by Edward Boyden.