BMC Psychiatry: Review of 2014
By Veronica Wignall, Assistant Editor for the BMC Series From e-mental health to self-injury in adolescents, BMC Psychiatry has published a range of exciting… Read more »
Christopher Foote
Chris is the Editor of BMC Cell Biology, BMC Ecology, and BMC Evolutionary Biology. Before joining BioMed Central in 2012, he did a PhD at the University of Glasgow and post-doctoral research at Iowa State University.
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- Neanderthals, troubles with children, and influential spiders – news from ESEB 2017 - 31st August 2017
- BMC Ecology is now accepting Registered Reports! - 24th August 2017
- BMC Ecology Image Competition 2017: the winning images! - 18th August 2017
The year in review: the 10 most read articles published by the BMC Series in 2014
Across our more than 60 journals, the BMC Series will publish over 13,000 articles in 2014. Here, we look back at the 10 articles published in 2014 which have… Read more »
The year in review: our 10 most popular blogs of 2014
Throughout 2014, the BMC Series blog has highlighted both excellent research published in the BMC Series of journals and wider issues in biomedical research,… Read more »
Sterile insect technique – next generation pesticides
A new Supplement published in BMC Genetics titled “Development and evaluation of improved strains of insect pests for SIT” explores the environmentally… Read more »
Cannabis delivery, canine epilepsy and the cure for a broken heart: highlights of the BMC Series in October 2014
Delivering cannabis more effectively • Proteins in the extremes • Predicting C.difficile drug targets • The best treatment for canine epilepsy •… Read more »
An ancient rift among giraffes gives us clues on how to conserve them
The number of giraffe subspecies, and the relationship between them, remains controversial. Research, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, uses a new analysis… Read more »
Slothful trends in evolution: from walking giants to tiny tree-dwellers
Today, sloths are all small tree-climbing animals. However new research, published today in BMC Evolutionary Biology, suggests this makes them the black sheep… Read more »
Brocante and Biotech – BMC Biotechnology at the ESBES-IFIBiop Lille 14
On the first weekend of September, the city of Lille in northern France hosts the largest flea market in Europe, the “Braderie de Lille”. Starting on the… Read more »
It’s an eyeball with legs! Discovering more about the extinct, enigmatic and altogether bizarre Thylacocephlans
The origins of Thylacocephalans, bizarre arthropods extinct for over 80 million years, has long been shrouded in mystery. The discovery of a new species, the… Read more »
The Dodo and the Spotted Green Pigeon; solving a 200 year old mystery
The Dodo, that remarkable flightless bird, has become an icon of extinction. However it was far from the only unique island bird to become extinct in the era of… Read more »