Last month we published an article by Mark Peterson of Indiana University, about the genetics of song birds. Mark’s work looked for sequence variants of two genes (known to affect migration) between migratory and non-migratory birds, but did not find a correlation in the species he studied. His paper received positive feedback from referees, and…
Here are our most popular tweets, as well as some other interesting picks, from the past week on the @F1000 Twitter feed
Genomics & Genetics Head of Faculty Rudolf Jaenisch on his research into reprogramming somatic cells
Head of Faculty for Immunology Frederick Alt on his lab’s interests in the immune system and the genome.
[NB: this campaign has been extended until the end of September. Read more.] Negative, and proud of it! It can be very difficult to get papers presenting negative or null results published. Many important results from scientific experiments are never published in the traditional peer reviewed literature, but negative and null results present a particular…
This is a guest post from Cristiana Santos de Macedo, a Research Fellow from the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, who works with Faculty Member Carlos Morel in the Global Health section of the Public Health & Epidemiology Faculty at F1000Prime. Here, Cristiana tells us of her experiences with the Brazilian Government scholarship program…
A round-up of the most popular Tweets from @F1000, as well as our picks from the rest of Twitter.
(This is the final installment of a series of posts featuring speakers from “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks about peer review, data sharing, and open access. Previously: Lawrence Kane on rapid publication, Keith Flaherty on publishing negative results , Steven Hyman on sharing datasets, Sue Griffin on transparent peer review,…
It is with great sadness that we note the death of Dick Heinegård, former F1000Prime Section Head in Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology, who passed away on May 1st. Dick Heinegård was Professor of Medical and Physiological Chemistry at Lund University in Sweden from 1983, and joined F1000Prime in 2005 as head of the Cartilage Disorders…
(This is part 4 of a series of posts featuring speakers from “Challenging the Science Publishing Status Quo”, an evening of talks about peer review, data sharing, and open access. Previously: Lawrence Kane on rapid publication, Keith Flaherty on publishing negative results , Steven Hyman on sharing datasets, Sue Griffin on transparent peer review) Gary…
