A snapshot of the highest-ranked articles in neuroscience and related fields, as ranked by F1000

Researchers find - and reverse - tumors' ability to hide from the immune system

By Megan Scudellari Boris Igić : A fertile mind © 2010 Matthew Gilson Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. Age: 33 In 1997, Boris Igić, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, was pursuing a degree in history. But after the third meeting of his first-ever course on evolution, he rushed out the classroom door and made a beeline to the registrar’s office, where he switched his major t

By Megan Scudellari The Undruggables Can young biotechs chasing elusive drug targets succeed where so many have failed? They think so. G-protein coupled receptors in the cell membrane Courtesy of Anchor Therapeutics and Arkitek Studios John Andrews finished his presentation and turned to the roomful of pharmaceutical employees. Chief scientific officer for NeurAxon, a small Canadian biotech developing pain therapeutics, Andrews braced himself for the o

A new brain-machine interface demonstrates how humans direct their thoughts

Researchers uncover an unusual requirement for dengue entry into cells

A father's high-fat diet may increase his offspring's risk of diabetes.

A second paper by a Harvard stem cell biologist is also under review

A snapshot of the highest-F1000-ranked articles in neuroscience and related areas

Mantis shrimp protect themselves with armor that acts like a punching bag

As journal cancellations sweep across the US, scientists worry about how they will affect research

In a rare glimpse inside a diseased brain, researchers watch for the first time as immune cells directly attack neurons in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis (MS). Published this week in linkurl:Immunity,;http://www.cell.com/immunity/home the surprising role of T helper cells in neurodegeneration may provide a novel therapeutic target for blocking neuron dysfunction in patients with MS. Brain with MS lesions U.S. Brookhaven National Laboratory, linkurl:Wikimedia Commons;http://commons.wiki