A round-up of the most popular tweets on @F1000 this week, as well as other choice picks from the Twittersphere.
We are delighted, once again, to be able to announce the winners of our annual ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ and ‘Associate Faculty Member Travel Grant’ awards. In addition, we’re thrilled to unveil a completely new award – Outstanding Faculty Member of 2013. These awards recognize the hard work of our Faculty Members and Associate…
This is the first in a short series of video demonstrations of major features of F1000Prime. If you can’t wait for the next blog post, take a look at all our recorded demonstrations and webinars on the F1000 YouTube channel. Setting up your F1000Prime homepage F1000Prime can save you even more time in your reading…
Making data widely available doesn’t always mean that it can be widely understood. In this guest blog post, Sue Malcolm considers the vast information we have about different species’ genomes, compared to how very few people know how to interpret this information. Malcolm is Faculty Member for F1000Prime, and Emeritus Professor of Molecular Genetics at…
A round-up of the week’s most popular tweets on @F1000 , as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
We recently indexed an article by Shin-ichiro Kojima and Gary Borisy, about a method they developed that allows cell biologists to evaluate within single cells whether their RNA interference method is working. One of the current challenges in cell and molecular biology is to determine the biological function of genes, now that we know the…
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Pharmacology & Drug Discovery Faculty Member Stephen A. Udem. Stephen joined F1000Prime in 2010. A native New Yorker, he was a student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he became a professor 25 years later, and he also held positions at the…
While more than 18,000 cancer researchers are gathered in San Diego for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting this week, we’re highlighting the most influential research articles in oncology in 2013 and a prestigious award for one of our Heads of Faculty. Prof. Bob Pinedo, Professor of Medical Oncology, Free University (VUMC) Amsterdam,…
F1000Research is hitting the road again! This time we’ll be attending the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego from April 26th-30th. If you’re planning to attend, please visit our booth to grab a few goodies, talk science and publishing, and learn more about our journal. As part of our visit we’ll also be hosting an…
A key aim of the F1000Research approach to publishing is to clean up the peer review process – referees are still invited but this is done after publication (to remove the normal holdups in when the science is shared) and is done completely in the open (with names and referee reports published alongside the article).…