Sleep, cleanliness and order in disorder

You can be 'too clean': exposure to fewer microbes and more chemicals could explain the rise in allergic disease. https://t.co/R4u5urIEYv — F1000 (@F1000) November 26, 2014 Remember this next time you fancy a lie-in: REM sleep found to be necessary for blood-brain barrier function https://t.co/IdVne2XNCj — F1000 (@F1000) November 27, 2014 The Rules of Attraction:…

Open Science News – 28 November 2014

It’s been a busy few weeks, so we missed a few roundups of open science news, but it was so busy because there was a LOT going on in the open science world! Here is a very brief summary of just the key news of the past weeks: funding news and meeting summaries. Better funder…

Featured F1000Prime Report: developing tools for malaria surveillance.

From this month’s batch of F1000Prime Reports, the peer-reviewed open-access review series on emerging themes in biology and medicine, we thought we’d feature a report dealing with one of the deadliest killers in human history: malaria. In “Research priorities for the development and implementation of serological tools for malaria surveillance“, James Beeson and colleagues take…

SfN 2014 highlights

So that’s it! SfN is over and done with for another year. We’ve loved meeting all of you who visited our booth, we’ve given away F1000 and F1000Research #SfNswag and we had a fantastic time at #SfNBanter, which we sponsored this year.

New on F1000Research – 24 November 2014

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 Late cardiac sodium current can be assessed using automated patch-clamp [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/4kj] Morgan Chevalier, Bogdan Amuzescu, Vaibhavkumar Gawali, Hannes Todt, Thomas Knott, Olaf Scheel, Hugues Abriel…

Dame Kay Davies wins WISE Lifetime Achievement Award

We are thrilled to congratulate Dame Kay Davies, F1000 International Advisory Board member, on being awarded the 2014 WISE Lifetime Achievement Award. WISE Awards celebrate female talent in science, technology and engineering, and recognise the efforts of advisors, employers and other organisations to encourage and support women in STEM careers. This is the 30th year…

Clinical challenges in colon cancer: an interview with Heinz-Josef Lenz

Heinz-Josef Lenz, Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Associate Director for Clinical Research at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is one of the F1000 Section Heads for Gastrointestinal Cancers. In this video, Professor Lenz describes his multifaceted areas of interest, focusing on predictive biomarkers for gastrointestinal cancers and early drug development. Currently, Professor…

New on F1000Research – 17 November 2014

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. We are currently at the SfN meeting, where we are launching several new article collections in neuroscience topics. See our collections page to view them all, or visit us at the SfN…