There’s a bit of a holiday mood at F1000 Towers this week. A long Easter weekend with glorious weather (remind me to show you some photos of the vineyard in Surrey we visited), and another long weekend coming up thanks to the conjugation of a couple of fertility rites. What better time, then, to dust…
I work in a downtown area where shops come and go. Some have staying power, and some are just a flash in the pan. A new jewelry shop recently opened up just downstairs from my office. As I walked by the shop, I asked myself, what do they offer that’s of value to me?
How exactly do you mend a broken heart? We’ve been looking at the British Heart Foundation’s ‘Mending Broken Hearts‘ campaign recently, with videos from the legend Desmond Julian, and a BHF-funded Fellow, Paul Riley.
This week’s news includes an embattled Harvard psychologist banned from the classroom, reports from Federal agencies about their scientific integrity policies, a detailed look at gene transcription, 10 new malaria resistance genes, and the reintroduction of pygmy rabbits to the wild.
As part of the Philadelphia Science Festival, which is going on in the city of Brotherly Love from April 15-28, Judge John Jones–who delivered a resounding victory to proponents of evolution education in the 2005 Dover, PA trial–will be holding court at the Community College of Philadelphia on Saturday (April 23). If you’re in the…
We are are legion. Detection of differential splicing in cancer using gene expression arrays is the 1000th poster to be published at our open poster repository, https://posters.f1000.com/. Gene expression arrays have been a workhorse of biology for a number of years now, and there are vast sets of data. What happens when the same genes,…
Open source, open access, open posters even–but open science? Is that a step too far? The arguments over whether open data–publishing experimental results on the web, making datasets available, etc.–is a good thing, for science as a whole or individual careers, are likely to rage for quite a long time to come. That hasn’t stopped…
Back when the world was young I had a deep and abiding interest in the structure of components of the nuclear pore, especially those involved in getting messenger RNA out of the nucleus. The nuclear pore, you’ll recall, is a massive structure in the nuclear membrane of eukaryotes that keeps the DNA in and all…
What the bleep is a mastermind? Is it some kind of scheme involving aliens in collusion with their human puppets in the guise of businesspeople to take control of us all? I was talking with an old friend and colleague recently, and the question was implicit within the conversation. It soon became clear that the…
This week’s news includes news for the gray wolves of America, a controversial anti-aging pill, a stem cell suggestion for Japanese nuclear workers, bail for an imprisoned Indian doctor, and an interactive map of the brain.
