[pullquote]”We believe that if we can identify oligomers that can fold and function in the same ways as peptides and proteins do, these can be used for tremendous therapeutic benefit and would have the additional advantage of enhanced chemical diversity and enhanced stability in biological systems.”[/pullquote] Kent Kirshenbaum, professor of chemistry at New York University,…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
Our latest #F1000talks tweetchat discussed how social media can benefit biomedical scientists and their industry. This post features a Storify authored by F1000 Specialist Kirsten Lee, which summed up what was discussed during our chat.
Last year, open science developer-advocate Jure Triglav wrote a post on how scientific figures should work in 2014. Jure went beyond encouraging the use of scientific figures that update in real-time, he created one on his blog; a neat graph that auto-plots the number of sun-mentioning tweets in the Bay Area against actual cloud coverage…
Ruth Lehmann works at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York University, and is a Section Head of the Morphogenesis and Cell Biology Section of the Developmental Biology Faculty. Kathleen Wets, Publisher for F1000, recently caught up with her. Another thing I find intriguing with germs cells is that, when they start to migrate,…
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 article Long read nanopore sequencing for detection of HLA and CYP2D6 variants and haplotypes [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4zj] Ron Ammar, Tara A. Paton, Dax Torti, Adam Shlien,…
The trending article recommendations on the @F1000 feed this week, as well as other interesting picks from around Twitter.
The biggest open science news this week was the announcement that the World Health Organisation is asking for clinical trial data to be made publicly available. Many lives could have been saved if crucial Ebola research had not been behind a paywall, reports TechDirt. Lack of available data could have prevented several cases of research…
F1000 Specialist Kirsten Lee is the host of our next #F1000talks tweetchat, which takes place tomorrow (Wednesday April 15), 1 PM EST/6 PM GMT on the @F1000 channel. Here we get to know a little more about her. Kirsten is a neuroscientist, an F1000 Specialist, a beginner cyclist, and a foursquare super user. Currently, she’s…
We had a lot of fun attending #EB2015 in Boston. We met many old friends and made firm new ones, including #EBmouse. Here are our highlights from the conference…
