When you come to write up your lab results and publish them (whether in a journal or your dissertation), one of the things you have to do is write up how you did everything–the methods section. In fact, it’s usually a good idea to write up your methods well before this point, but that’s another…
The link between red meat and diabetes, and spinach gets even better.
Karen Dawe, University of Bristol, reviews the Fourth Edition of Asking Questions in Biology.
What’s the link between our economic woes and being able to do science?
Incorporating artificial bases into DNA: letting evolution take the strain creates a genetic firewall.
And does it matter? There’s a long discussion on the F1000 website about a paper in PLoS Biology on the number of species in the world. Robert May seems to think that the first question a visiting alien species might ask us is, “How many distinct life forms—species—does your planet have?”–rather than the more practical…
The tricky question of data sharing, reuse and openness is a familiar topic to regular readers of Naturally Selected: see previous posts gathered here, here and here. So we were interested to see a news article in Nature by Zoë Corbyn yesterday, Researchers failing to make raw data public. The article highlights a paper in…
Our congratulations to two of our F1000 Members, Art Horwich and Ulrich Hartl, who have jointly been awarded the 2011 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Art and Ulrich have been with Faculty of 1000 since the very beginning, in July 2001. The Award is in recognition of their work on protein folding, specifically their…
Probiotics, live microbial supplements marketed on the basis of improving the microbial “balance” in the human gut, account for a growing market–perhaps 10 billion Euro in Europe alone(source). While probiotics are apparently a market (and marketing success)–indeed it’s getting ever more difficult to buy yogurt that isn’t probiotic–whether there is even such a thing as…
The ethics of disability is complex. Ordinarily, you’d think that if something is wrong, medically, and we have the means to fix it (as long as it’s not a Pyrrhic fix), then there is an ethical imperative to do so. In the case of deafness, this principle turns out to be not so simple. A…
