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Suzanne Kennedy

Suzanne is Director of R&D at Mo Bio Laboratories in California, and the author of their blog, The Culture Dish. She has a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from Virginia Commonwealth University.

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As a scientist in academia or industry, you spend a large portion of your time looking up and reading research papers. What if instead of printing out piles of papers and taking them home to read all weekend, you could click on a video and visualize the experiments and results by the actual researchers doing the work?

Guess what? You can!

The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a new way to publish original methods in the areas of biological and biomedical science in a video format. The focus is on making demonstration of techniques and experimental approaches clear and easy to follow.

Articles published in JoVE are listed in Pubmed and MEDLINE so you can still get your paper cited by other authors. All submissions go through peer review and editorial review and the editorial board consists of 22 distinguished professors from Harvard, Princeton, NIH and other leading institutions in the US, Europe and Japan.

JoVE was created in 2006 by three people; two post-doctoral researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Moshe Pritsker (Ph.D.) and Klaus Korak (M.D.), and a programmer Nikita Bernstein. Their goal was to increase the reproducibility and transparency of experimental studies.

Dr. Pritsker explains

�one of the most difficult �bottleneck� problems of the contemporary biomedical research is repeating biological experiments based on text descriptions in traditional scientific journals. Therefore, more than 50% of the researcher’s time is spent on �reinventing the wheel�, and attempting to reproduce experiments already made and published by someone else. Visualization through online video offers a solution to this problem by providing a clear unambiguous demonstration of experimental techniques and procedures.�

After two years of operations, JoVE has published 23 monthly issues including nearly 300 articles across all the areas of experimental biology including neuroscience, cell biology, developmental biology, stem cell research, immunology, bioengineering and plant biology.

Articles have been produced at leading academic laboratories and research institutions including Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF, Yale and others.

According to JoVE Associate Editor, Mark H. Shalinsky, each video-article is viewed about 5,000 – 10,000 times per year. How many times a year do you think your published paper gets read? Not sure? When you publish on JoVE, you can know exactly how many people were interested in your research.

Submiting your article is easy. Researchers have the option of producing their own video and a written paper (which involves writing the standard sections of a published article- an abstract, introduction, material and methods, results, and discussion) or if production is not possible by the authors, JoVE will send a team to your lab to help shoot the video for you.

JoVE video-professionals are located across 30 cities in the USA, Canada, UK, Germany and Japan including such centers of academic research as Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Berlin, Tokyo and others. The costs of having JoVE produce your video are equal to or less than what you would pay to print in standard top tier journals.

Take a look at some of the interesting work recently published on JoVE.

• The most recent publication is the Purification and Visualization of Influenza A Viral Ribonucleoprotein Complexes
• Do you want to know how to dissect drosophila larvae? Here is a video published by Jonathan Brent, et al., from Columbia University, demonstrating the technique.
• And if you want to know how to collect blood from the American Horseshoe Crab, Limulus Polyphemus, Peter Armstrong from the University of California, Davis is happy to demonstrate.

With visualized experiments you get real-life training on difficult techniques and can share your research with others in a whole new way.

So why not visualize your research? Show to your colleagues and future employees what you actually know without writing – just show!

And think how easy journal club will be when you don’t need to make slides and can just load the video from the JoVE website.

What do you think of JoVE?