This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, and the Mental Health Foundation hopes to improve the wellbeing and mental health of Britain, after their survey revealed that the nation’s state of mental health is poor and appears to be deteriorating.
As the Foundation is investigating ways to prevent mental health and enhance society’s mental state, I thought I would investigate some of the research that has been recommended by our F1000Prime Faculty Members on the suggested influences and causes of mental illness, as well as possible treatments.
It is time to re-think how biomedical applications are built and adopt new strategies that ensure quality, efficiency, robustness, correctness and reusability of software components. Dr Luis Bastiao Silva explains how engaging end-users during the development process will help to ensure that software applications fit the needs of general clinicians and practitioners.
One of the latest findings in neuroscience made headline news, as a protein therapy could slow down the human’s brain ageing process and in the future could potentially be used as a preventative against neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s. In recognition of this work, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles in the area of tissue rejuvenation in this month’s blog post as well as the usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
Collaborations can be a vital means to tackle complex scientific problems and global challenges. Although there can be benefits for research, it might not always be the best approach to take. Liz Allen discusses how to recognise the value of collaborations and the importance of understanding when and how to forge, sustain and nurture them.
Throughout the year, our Faculty works tirelessly to highlight the noteworthy studies and findings in their fields. In so doing, they not only help us maintain our sanity by keeping our ‘to read’ pile at a manageable level but also acknowledge the quality of research from their contemporaries, thereby helping to raise the profile of…
There has been a lot of excitement in the Nanopore community recently from long reads to technical updates. Publishing Editor, Hollydawn Murray, gives us a run down of recent events and speaks to F1000Research author Scott Gigante who has been part of the recent excitement.
Cluster Flow is a pipeline tool developed by the SciLifeLab Swedish National Genomics Facility and the Babraham Bioinformatics Group in the UK. It has been described in a Software Tool Article on F1000Research. In this guest blog, one of the article’s authors, Phil Ewels explains what Cluster Flow is and how it will be of use to the bioinformatics community.
So, you have a great idea for a research project. Now you need funding to make it happen. But how? Where? From whom? Here, João Peres and Tiago Barros share their experiences of applying for research funding in order to help others embarking on the same journey.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, spring has just sprung and nothing signifies this season more than spring chickens. The feathered fowl generated quite a few headlines in February after researchers from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh published a paper in Development about producing gene-edited chickens as a way of preserving rare breeds. In a nod to this work, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles in the area of gene editing in this month’s blog post as well as the usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
Happy Chinese New Year 2017 – The Year of the Rooster. To celebrate, we are highlighting the top 3 recommended articles by Chinese authors covering a wide range of topics in this month’s blog post as well as usual top 3 articles for the month and Hidden Jewels.
