Jerome Korzelius, a new F1000 Specialist, guest posts on his experience at EMBO 2013. The EMBO Meeting 2013 was held in the vibrant city of Amsterdam. This annual event covered the breadth of the life sciences in Europe. With a more general focus, instead of concentrating on a single field, the meeting is ideal for…
Introducing ScienceGrrl, a network of female scientists who aim to show the real face of women in science. Here, ScienceGrrl director Heather Williams tells us a little more about what the group stands for.
Exciting things are kicking off here at F1000. At the start of this year, we announced our plans to develop a new project – F1000 Research – an attempt to create a new open access, open data publishing model within biology and medicine, with open and transparent peer review. Well, we’re pleased to announce that…
Many are quick to criticize the peer review process, but are there any viable alternatives?
With a tobacco giant using freedom of information laws to access smoking study data, we ask the question – how much of scientific research should be accessible?
Last Friday we highlighted an evaluation of a paper reporting that a lot of papers might need to be scrutinized because they used a reagent–catalase–from a particular supplier. The catalase was contaminated with a compound that affected the very thing being measured (vasodilation in the kidney). Via the magic of Twitter, we’ve learned that there…
Karen Dawe, University of Bristol, reviews the Fourth Edition of Asking Questions in Biology.
Incorporating artificial bases into DNA: letting evolution take the strain creates a genetic firewall.
My doctorate supervisor was fond of telling me that I had to keep a good lab notebook in case I “walked under a bus” one morning. Although I was utterly convinced of the necessity of accurate records, somehow this particular exhortation didn’t have quite the desired effect on my attitude. Maybe he should have warned…
Nature News posted a piece on Friday about a new enterprise Science Exchange which its co-founder, Elizabeth Irons, describes as: ‘an ebay, but for Scientific Knowledge’. Cool idea and obviously born of a real need to get things done. As Dr Irons recounts, the genesis for the idea was when she wanted to commission experiments…
