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This is the blog for Faculty of 1000, which provides learned commentary on the biomedical literature: 'post-publication peer review.' We are looking at how best to serve researchers and clinicians as they navigate the jungle of published papers This blog is run by our Information Architect,... Full Bio
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Multitasking, poo studies, and groundbreaking papers by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine “Allow me to preface this evaluation with the following statement: this article is ahead of its time.” ow.ly/l0qIw #QOTD — F1000Prime (@F1000) May 14, 2013 ... Read on »
Vitamins and minerals in health and disease by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Peter Ebeling is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Western Hospital, Melbourne, and a member of the Bone & Mineral Metabolism section of the Diabetes & ... Read on »
What regulates our bodies? by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Willis Samson , Professor of Pharmacological and Physiological Science at St Louis University, is one of the Heads of Faculty of Diabetes & Endocrinology at F1000Prime. G ... Read on »
What is impact? by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last week the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment ( DORA ) launched , with Faculty of 1000 as one of the original 75 scientific organizations to sign the Decl ... Read on »
Monkeys, macromolecules and how insects help flavor your tea by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Does eating big molecules make you bigger? Protein (not fat/carbohydrate) is positively associated with weight gain. ow.ly/kUsh8 — F1000Prime (@F1000) May 16, 2013 ... Read on »
Reprogramming cells to study disease. by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine F1000Prime Publisher Kathleen Wets visited Boston for the Experimental Biology (EB 2013) conference last month. Despite the city being in lock-down that day owing t ... Read on »
Immunity and stability in the human genome. by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last month, Kathleen Wets, Publisher of F1000Prime, was in Boston for the Experimental Biology (EB 2013) conference. While she was there, she visited Frederick Alt , Profe ... Read on »
Science without Borders by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is a guest post from Cristiana Santos de Macedo , a Research Fellow from the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, who works with Faculty Member Carlos Morel in the ... Read on »
Robots, relationships and a revolution in evolution by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Rip up your textbooks: an evolution in Neo-Darwinism suggests physiology integrates with evolutionary biology. ow.ly/kGpsj — F1000Prime (@F1000) May 6, 2013 ... Read on »
Dick Heinegård by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It is with great sadness that we note the death of Dick Heinegård , former F1000Prime Section Head in Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology , who passed away on May 1st. ... Read on »
New Members of the National Academy of Sciences by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine At the end of April, the National Academy of Sciences announced 84 new members and 21 foreign associates to join the ranks of its current members, individuals who are reco ... Read on »
One step forward for better evidence for healthcare… by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Advice to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on data release from clinical trials, published last week , should ultimately help to improve healthcare but reveals widely d ... Read on »
Seeing dreams and lengthening lifespan by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Ain’t it the life? Placing the dramatic increases in human lifespan over last century in an evolutionary context. ow.ly/ksACj — F1000Prime (@F1000) April 29, 2013 ... Read on »
Science – no laughing matter? by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Many thanks to all our Twitter followers who indulged us on Friday and sent in their best science-related jokes. Having laughed (and groaned) our way through the entries, ... Read on »
Death genes, painkillers and junk DNA by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Is junk DNA bunk? Yet another critique of ENCODE – ow.ly/kelsG (here’s another ow.ly/jxRTy ). — F1000Prime (@F1000) April 23, 2013 Old drug, new tricks. A s ... Read on »
Daniel L. Traber by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Sadly, we note the death of Dr Daniel Traber , former Faculty Member in Critical Care & Emergency Medicine, who passed away in September last year. Dr Traber work ... Read on »
Blood, sweat and pathogenic yeast by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Does endurance training really elicit pulmonary adaptations and hence pulmonary blood flow? ow.ly/k0tbO — F1000Prime (@F1000) April 16, 2013 Biologic ... Read on »
The Brain Prize 2013 by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine We’re delighted to be able to congratulate Ed Boyden , Faculty Member in Neuroscience , on recently being awarded the prestigious ‘ Brain Prize ’. The €1 million ... Read on »
Little child by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine This is a guest post from Dawn Sweeney , an Associate Faculty Member from the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York. She works with Faculty Member Suzanne Kar ... Read on »
Hitting peer reviewers with a bunch of carrots by f1000 Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine By Thamizhpparithi Maari (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) F1000Research , one of a number of major open access jou ... Read on »