The toxic avenger? Inhibition of C. difficile quorum sensing may provide a new non-antibiotic treatment avenue https://t.co/zZdL7YLEyn — F1000 (@F1000) October 7, 2015 Cinderella story: tRNA precursor believed rubbish is actually irreplaceable component of gene regulation machinery https://t.co/9dFrtzYCaL — F1000 (@F1000) October 6, 2015 Web of lies: the Internet creates an illusion whereby access to…
We marked the sad passing of William E Paul in September – a leader in the field of Immunology and a Section Head of the ‘Allergy & Hypersensitivity’ in our Immunology Faculty. Since then, we’ve received many tributes from members of the F1000 Faculty for Dr Paul – a testament to his influence and kindness…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel The European Conference on Visual Perception is an annual meeting devoted to scientific study of human visual perception. ECVP has been held each year since 1978, and…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 social media feeds this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
This week was the inaugural Peer Review Week, with tweets under the #PeerRevwk15. F1000Research published our own compilation of useful peer review blogs here. A new study published by BMJ Open showed that open peer review is superior to a closed model Researchers shared their open science stories on the Winnower, for example, “How becoming…
This week F1000Research joins ORCID, ScienceOpen, Wiley, and the wider scientific community in a new initiative aimed at showcasing peer review: Peer Review Week! This virtual event highlights the fundamental importance of peer review in science and promotes the many different forms it can take across the scientific spectra. At F1000Research we’re proudly celebrating 3 years of…
We’re pleased to announce that Beth Stevens, Neuroscience Faculty Member, has won a MacArthur grant and was inducted into the 2015 MacArthur fellowship. The MacArthur grants are often termed ‘genius grants’, and awardees receive $625,000 over five years. Stevens, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital,…
Jason McDermott was one of the first people to publish online on F1000Research preliminary research methodology and data to gain peer reviews in the hope it would strengthen his R01 grant application (read about it here). Here he writes of his experience and how it went down with the grant reviewers. McDermott is a senior…
A selection of new content on F1000Research from the past week. To receive notification of all new articles, sign up for our table of contents alerts. Featured channel Bioconductor is an open-source, open-development software project for the analysis and comprehension of high-throughput data in biology. Its aim is to enable interdisciplinary research through collaborative and…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 social media feeds this week, as well as interesting picks from the science Twittersphere.
