Martin Raff talks about cells urging one another not to commit suicide.
At the ECCO & ESMO meeting in Stockholm, George Demetri, Section Head in Oncology, talked about his hopes and expectations for his field of sarcoma research putting a finer point on the pencil According to George, the most important aspect of the Stockholm meeting was going to be a discussion of prognostic and predictive factors…
Faculty of 1000 Oncology Section Head Matti Aapro is a medical oncologist based at the Clinique de Genolier in Switzerland. In this video, he highlights a couple of important presentations at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm.
F1000 Member Jacques Bernier is a radiation oncologist. Here at the ESMO ECCO meeting in Stockholm he tells us of recent developments in head and neck oncology, specifically chemoradiation, radiation therapy with targeted therapy (Cetuximab), and combinations of the two. Chemoradiation therapy is significantly more efficacious than radiation therapy alone, but long-term complications in surviving…
At the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm last month, F1000 Member Manel Esteller received the 2011 European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) Cancer Researcher Award. In this short video, taken at the meeting, Manel tells us about his work on the epigenetics of cancer. Manel’s group demonstrated that…
F1000 Member Edvard Moser of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, was also at the EMBO 2011 meeting in Vienna. He works on how the brain generates a “map” of space. Kathleen got him to tell us about the discovery of grid cells and the amazing things that happen when rats navigate a changing…
F1000 Section Head Brett Finlay gave a talk at the EMBO 2011 meeting in Vienna, on microbiota. Here he tells us why this new field is so exciting. read Faculty of 1000 because you’re going to get lots of interesting hits… (Edit: Brett even has an IMDB entry!)
Dorothy Hodgkin, who died 17 years ago today, was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for “her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances“. Here she is at Web of Stories, talking about starting to work on vitamin B12:
Over at The Scientist we’ve got a Culture Friday piece on the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition. On Monday I bumped into Sir Paul Nurse, President of the Royal Society, and asked what, for him, would make a successful exhibition. It’s already successful… science is exciting
Web of Stories has just released new footage of an interview with Marvin Minsky: Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, inventor of the confocal microscope, and co-founder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (among other things).
