Everybody counts. Today is World AIDS Day, a day highlighting the need for the 36.7 million people worldwide living with HIV. This year’s campaign #LetsEndIt, calls to end the isolation, end the stigma and end the negative impact of HIV. In recognition of this, and the World Health Organization efforts to promote ‘everybody counts’ and…
For World AIDS Day, and in recognition of this year’s #LetsEndIt campaign, we hear from our Faculty Members working on vaccines to protect against HIV Infection. We interviewed Faculty Member Antu Dey, Senior Director of Research & Development, at Vaccine Product Development Center of International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). He explains how team work, cooperation, and…
In a series of blog posts, we answer your frequently asked questions about F1000Workspace. If you have other questions please do drop us a line on feedback@f1000.com – we will respond directly and they could end up appearing on a future blog! No matter whether you work in the same lab or on the other…
Integrated development raises a lot of questions. Tessa Ahner-McHaffie and colleagues from FH360 tried to answer some of these in a Systematic Review published on Gates Open Research and currently being peer reviewed. In this guest blog, she describes the work that her and colleagues have done in exploring the evidence around this area of development work.
Karolina Wartolowska explains the importance of blinding and shares the methods used to imitate audio, visual and physical cues to reduce bias during surgical trials
In June, we asked researchers to show us their code and send us their latest Software Tool Articles. Hollydawn Murray, Publishing Editor for F1000Research, shares with you highlights from some of the 16 new articles published since then. The tools cover a wide range of subjects in life sciences and medicine written in various programming languages.
The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) are guidelines to facilitate transparent and unbiased reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Adherence to CONSORT guidelines ensures the inclusion of key information, so that readers can properly assess the validity and generalizability of RCTs and apply it to their patient population. The inclusion of key information so…
Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces another new publication platform – AAS Open Research – in partnership with the African Academy of Sciences. Rebecca sets out how this new platform could bring about a transformation in how the African research community works.
Jonathan Winawer and Nathan Witthoft published an article in the INCF Gateway on F1000Research, which recently passed peer review, describing a step-by-step tutorial to systematically identify V4 – the brain’s fourth visual field – in humans. The authors explains why localizing V4 has been such a headache, their solution to demarcating this area, and why they decided to publish this all as a protocol.
With new evidence showing the influencing role biological factors have on the status of our mental health, we explore the role our immune system has on our mind.
