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Tom Woodcock ponders the controversial issue of consent in pediatric critical care research.

Another milestone for F1000, and congrats to our 120K competition winner.

With regret, we note the death of Faculty Member Cornelis Biesheuvel. Cornelis joined F1000 in March 2007 and was a member of the ‘Methods for Diagnostic & Therapeutic Studies’ section in the Research Methodology Faculty. An obituary is posted here (in German). Our sincere condolences to his family and colleagues.

First, a big thank you for all the supportive comments on Twitter and in the blogosphere to our plans at F1000 Research.  We are under no illusion this is going to be a tough project and need all the feedback you can offer! Unsurprisingly, the greatest concerns have been around the idea of immediate publication…

F1000 extends ‘Changes Clinical Practice’ recommendations to a wider audience.

A new F1000 Medicine report causes Caitlin Cockerton to ponder the socio-ethical issues around new wave pharmaceuticals.

Quirky and amusing quotes from F1000 evaluations, and a wave hello.

…that children were being successfully inoculated for smallpox long before Edward Jenner was widely credited for the developed of a small pox vaccine? …or that one of the first popular health guides The Maintenance of Health, was written in the 11th Century, and was still widely studied and referred to until the 1600s?

This week’s news includes an embattled Harvard psychologist banned from the classroom, reports from Federal agencies about their scientific integrity policies, a detailed look at gene transcription, 10 new malaria resistance genes, and the reintroduction of pygmy rabbits to the wild.

This week’s news includes the spread of an antibiotic-resistant gene in microbes and international efforts to curb the rise of antibiotic resistance, the development of tiny kidneys from stem cells, the identification of the first patient in the Geron hESC trial, a 3D model of rat whiskers, and the genetic basis of caffeine fiends.