Marta Teperek describes a new pilot project being undertaken at the University of Cambridge with the aim of finding out what can be done to bring about more open research practices.
María Rodríguez-López and Cristina Cotobal, Postdoctoral Fellows in Jürg Bähler’s lab at University College London recently published a very detailed Method Article on a new CRISPR/Cas9-based protocol and primer design tool. We asked them to explain what CRISPR/Cas9 is, what it can be used for and why they decided to publish their article on our platform.
We spoke to Jim Smith (JS), head of the Developmental Biology Laboratory, and Tim Mohun (TM), head of the Heart Development Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute about the research they published on Wellcome Open Research today, the benefits of the platform and why they think other Wellcome grantees should follow their lead.