Giampaolo Perna, Humanitas University, Italy, is a psychiatrist who has focussed his research on panic disorders. In a recent Faculty Review, he and his co-author, Daniela Caldirola, present a new hypothesis about the pathology of panic disorder. In this guest blog he elaborates on this and the evidence needed to prove this hypothesis.
Anuj Sharma talks about his research on miltefosine and its potential use as an anti-chikungunya drug.
Unveiling our new Epigenetics and Epigenomics section! Steven Lokwan, Director of Operations for F1000Prime, talks about the new section and introduces Section Heads: Anne Ferguson-Smith, Edith Heard and Danny Reinberg.
We announce a new partnership with NC3Rs to launch a gateway that will maximise the impact of the 3Rs – replace, reduce or refine – technologies and approaches in animal research. In this guest blog, Vicky Robinson, Chief Executive of NCR3Rs, introduces the new NC3Rs gateway
Johanna Hepp, is May’s Associate Faculty Member of the Month. In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week, we interviewed Johanna to discuss her research on social cognition and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Why is community action being considered as a means to reduce harmful alcohol use? Peter Anderson, discusses this in his research article, published on F1000Research. Here he explains how city based policies could help alleviate the problem and who they should target.
Vojo Deretic, the director of a new autophagy research center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is May’s Faculty Member of the Month. In this Q&A, Vojo illustrates why he finds autophagy so spectacularly exciting and interesting area of biology, and the groundbreaking research taking place at a new research center.
Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000 announces our partnership with the Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) to provide a publication platform for 23 of their UK-based medical research charities.
A couple of our Faculty Members discuss William Kaelin’s opinion article, a piece that highlights the problematic trend that has crept into scientific publication and was F1000Prime’s top recommended article for six months running. They share their thoughts on what could be done to improve the future of scientific research.
Emily Hesketh, a postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, discusses her research note published on F1000Research about a method to improve communication between specialists in interdisciplinary teams.
