Jerome Korzelius, an F1000 Specialist, guest posts on his experience at EDRC 2013. To paraphrase EDRC co-organizer Jordi Casanova, it felt almost rebellious, all these scientists coming together to talk about fundamental research on the model organism Drosophila (aka the fruit fly) in times of scant funding and increased pressure on scientists to do more…
One of the most popular themes around healthy foods is the emphasis on their anti-oxidant activity. Anti-oxidants remove reactive oxygen from cells, which minimizes damage to the cell. So, having associated “anti-oxidant” with “healthy” for so long, it was surprising to see an article about the anti-cancer properties of the pro-oxidant activity of dietary components.…
We’re pleased to be able to offer congrats to two of our Faculty Members that have been selected to join the network of EMBO Young Investigators. Well done to Kim Jensen – Faculty Member in Developmental Biology Sascha Martens – Faculty Member in Cell Biology The Young Investigators programme is for researchers under 40 years…
Here we have two more video interviews with the researchers and clinicians that make up the F1000Prime Faculty. This time we hear from Professor Ray Rodgers on ovarian physiology and Professor Pamela Flood on labour anaesthesia.
Here are this week’s most popular tweets from the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from Twitter…
Earlier this week, we started a discussion on Twitter, using hashtag #scoopingsci, to talk about issues surrounding scooping in science. This is an interesting topic from our point of view, because we can help researchers in different ways, and from the ensuing Twitter discussion, it seems like all these angles are of interest to people:…
On 28th November F1000 is heading to Heidelberg to host the last meet-up of this year. We are looking forward to hosting our local community at Heidelberg’s Vetter’s Brauhaus for the third #F1000 meet-up – informal networking event for talking science, technology and publishing. As is now usual, drinks and snacks are on F1000, and…
In September we published the latest version of an article called “Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant E. coli in retail chicken: comparing conventional, organic, kosher, and raised without antibiotics”. The study showed that Kosher chicken had higher levels of antibiotic-resistant E. coli than conventional, organic, or RWA chicken. This piqued the interest of several media outlets, and…
We would like to congratulate Pascale Cossart, Faculty Member in the Microbiology Faculty, on being awarded the Balzan Prize for her work in cellular microbiology and infectious diseases. She receives the award “for her seminal discoveries on the molecular biology of pathogenic bacteria and their interaction with host cells”. Her work on Listeria, among other…
Ned Seeman is the Margaret and Herman Sokol Professor of Chemistry at New York University, and one of the Section Heads for Biomimetic Chemistry in the Chemical Biology Faculty of F1000Prime. We were lucky enough to have Professor Seeman visit us at our London offices recently, and in this video he tells us of the…
