“Hippocampal mossy fibers” may sound like abnormal skin growths on a rare African mammal (to me at least) but they are actually axons of granule cells in the hippocampus which deal with different types of bevaviour such as spatial learning. The region is also where scientists have discovered the brain’s ability to be energy efficient,…
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW4ek1lpZDY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1] This is one of the first videos uploaded to our Youtube channel, taken from a tutorial on the Faculty of 1000 website (which explains the opening frames: me scrambling to press play on the Flash player). In the long term we’re aiming to have Faculty Members talk about their areas of expertise, feature clips…
There was some serious geeking-out going on in the office just now—at least, in the part where the dev team and myself interact. IT have been wandering around the joint with little white boxes that have aerials sticking out of them, and then Phil came over and asked for my MAC. A little while later…
Is it just a wall of ideology that separates animal researchers from animal rights campaigners? If so, why has it often seemed like a one-sided argument: activists brandishing placards, rocks, slogans and some dodgy statistics that persuade an ill-informed public, while those actually doing the research only speak up when they find a cure for…
Elizabeth Blackburn – a member of the International Advisory Board for F1000 Biology – was awarded the Nobel Prize in the Physiology or Medicine category this week, joining a prestigious group of F1000 Nobel winners and nominees. Professor Blackburn and colleagues received the honour in the Physiology or Medicine category this week for their work…
I’ve been at f1000 for six months now, and this is the third desk I’ve had. Just to keep me on my toes I’m due to move again. This is because our operational side is expanding and they need more seats. As one of our sister companies recently got absorbed by the 600 lb gorilla…
One of the great things about my job is that I see into many aspects of the publishing juggernaut that is Faculty of 1000. So not only am I privy to what Sales and Marketing get up to (this morning, for example, they were making up new words to Christmas Carols*), but I can also…
One of our recent evaluations looked at an innovative method for labelling cancer cells (see the story here). In the original paper, researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital developed a process to specifically tag cancer cells by using chemically modified antibodies to home in on cancer cells and then cycloaddition to dye the antibody, making the…
My spies over at BioMed Central brought my attention to an Opinion piece in J. Biol by Arthur Lander at UCI, published on Monday. So newsworthy, they press-released it just in time for Stem Cell Awareness Day, which was yesterday. Oh well—we at f1000 have never claimed to bring you the latest research; rather just the best, no matter where it’s…
