What can keep young people away from alcohol and cigarettes?
Despite smoking and drinking among very young people declining in recent years, there is still a lot of public health concern around the numbers of older children… Read more »
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Can parents help their kids get sufficient sleep? When and how they provide support makes all the difference.
Sleep is increasingly being recognized as an important determinant of health, and an integral component of healthy living for children. Here, author Evelyn Pyper… Read more »
Video blog: Microparticles may be breast cancer’s secret weapon to evade the immune system
This video summarises new research, recently published in BMC Cancer, that reveals one method by which drug-resistant breast cancer cells evade the body's immune… Read more »
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Sounding out the properties of DNA
A song made from DNA is unlikely to top the charts but converting DNA sequences into musical notes could lead to identifying… Read more »
New insights into an underlying influence for mitochondrial shaping
A recently published research article in BMC Cell Biology identifies key mechanisms underlying mitochondrial shaping. For such… Read more »
Positive psychology, expressive writing and the confidence cult – BPS 2017
In early May 2017, BMC Psychology attended the British Psychological Society annual conference, in Brighton, UK. The congress… Read more »
BMC Ecology Image Competition 2017 – 2 weeks to go!
There are less than 2 weeks to submit your entries to the 5th annual BMC Ecology Image Competition! We’ve already received… Read more »
How apps can support people to moderate their drinking
With smart phones constantly at our finger tips, apps that promote and support health related behavioral changes, such as reducing… Read more »
Nuptial gift content regulates sex opportunities in South American spiders
In many spider species, males provide gifts to females to encourage them to mate. Usually these gifts are food, providing an… Read more »
Excellence at ECCMID
BMC Infectious Diseases has returned from the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID),… Read more »