To find life outside of Earth, we need to know under what sort of extreme conditions organisms are still able to thrive. When it comes to halophilic archaea, James Coker and Aida Moran-Reyna have now shown the effects of extreme pH levels on the archaea’s transcriptome. Coker shares more about the research in the interview…
Jia Shen is a Chinese researcher in Los Angeles, who is currently helping F1000Research to reach out to the Chinese research community. Among other things, she has translated various materials for us, and you can see some of her translation work if you access the F1000Research homepage from China. In the interview below, Jia shares…
We’ve received two more great videos from F1000 Specialists Fiona Russell and Rosie Griffiths for the F1000 Specialists’ video competition (view below). Fiona talks about her research at Professor Brain’s lab (yes, he’s really called that) looking at the reasons why arthritis pain gets worse in cold conditions, and Rosie describes her PhD in the…
How can you tell the difference between two proteins if the antibodies are not specific? This was a problem that researchers studying the cortex came across when determining the function of Otx2. In a recent F1000Research article, researchers from France and Italy found a solution. In this interview, one of the study’s authors, Alain Prochiantz…
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. First of all, we hope you’ve all had time to check our our brand new homepage design. This new design includes not just the weekly featured article, but also regularly updated featured…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
This week’s round-up of open science news: It’s Back To School season, and you, too, can get back in the (virtual) school benches with two free online courses that cover open science: Open knowledge: changing the global course of learning (Stanford OpenEdX, Sept 2 – Dec 12) Open Research (P2PU.org, registration closes Sept 12, course…
Today we launched a new design of part of our website, including the homepage and navigation menu. Please have a look, and let us know in the comments below what you think. A few of the changes: Chinese-language homepage. If you’re accessing our website from China or other Chinese speaking countries, you will see site…
A day later due to the UK bank holiday, but here is this week’s 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: An evolutionarily significant unicellular strategy in response to starvation stress in Dictyostelium social amoebae. Darja Dubravcic, Minus…
The American Chemical Society recently announced the recipients of the 2015 National Awards, and we are pleased to be able to say that two of those recipients are from the F1000 Faculty. Professor Eric Kool, an F1000 Section Head in Chemical Biology, wins the 2015 Ronald Breslow Award for outstanding contributions to the field of…
