As the Angostura bitters shortage of 2009 fades into distant memory, hopefully never to be repeated, in celebration of my last Friday at F1000 we’d like to know your favourite cocktail recipe. Here’s a couple of F1000 office favourites from Ian and myself to get you going: Richard’s perfect margarita For one generous, or two…
Section Head in Dermatology Marcus Maurer talks to F1000.
The link between gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis is revisited in a recently evaluated paper.
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.
We’d like to congratulate the following F1000 Members, who have just been elected to EMBO. Bernard de Massy, Cell Biology Santiago Elena, Ecology Ian Hickson, Cell Biology Edvard I Moser, Neuroscience Maria Rescigno, Immunology David C Rubinsztein, Genomics & Genetics Norbert Perrimon, Developmental Biology
There are some interesting quotes from the UK’s University and Science Minister David Willetts in an article on science policy from the Times Higher Education (THE). Mr Willetts has been seeking to allay researchers’ ‘common anxieties,’ particularly those relating to the measurement of ‘impact.’ The UK Government hands out money to its higher education funding…
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…
Cathryn Denner ponders a poster reporting Australian claims that Vitamin B3 can reduce skin cancer.
What’s new and exciting this week? The London Science Festival, the largest event of its kind, takes off!
