Bacteriophage T4 – A series of critical reviews
Bacteriophage T4, a virus that infects E.Coli, has played key roles in some of the major advances in the molecular biology field including the identification of… Read more »
Srimathy Sriskantharajah
Srimathy Sriskantharajah completed a BSc in Microbiology (UCL) and a PhD in environmental microbiology/ atmospheric chemistry (Royal Holloway University of London) before joining BioMed Central. Srimathy blogs about microbiology, infectious diseases and the environment amongst other things.
Latest posts by Srimathy Sriskantharajah (see all)
- Parasitic and fungal infections play a significant role in porpoise strandings - 8th November 2019
- Climate change and infectious diseases – a partnership made in hell? - 30th August 2019
- Malaria elimination: are we nearly there yet? - 25th April 2019
Chronic fatigue and ‘RNA rumor viruses’ – Can we learn from history?
Arguments aired by Robin Weiss in “A cautionary tale of virus and disease”, published in September in BMC Biology, now seem vindicated by four… Read more »
PCR contamination revealed, adding fuel to XMRV debate
Xenotrophic murine leukemia-related virus (XMRV) has been associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), a debilitating condition of unknown etiology, and also… Read more »
Death in a unicellular world
Programmed cell death, a decision made by cells to die via a self-governed process, has been extensively studied in metazoans (multicellular organisms),… Read more »
Scientific writing – Conference abstracts : online course announced
Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) has recently announced the launch of an exciting new e-course on writing and submitting conference abstracts:… Read more »
Hereditary Angioedema: Management Consensus 2010 – a thematic series
Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology has published its first thematic series, reviewing the current consensus on the treatment of the potentially… Read more »
Microbicide gel reduces risk of HIV infection in women – Breakthrough research from AIDS 2010 conference
The Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) announced the ground-breaking results of a clinical trial of a new… Read more »
BioPsychoSocial Medicine announce Ikemi Award winner
Every year, BioPsychoSocial Medicine and the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine present the Ikemi Award in recognition of outstanding research in the… Read more »
Family-centred services for children affected by HIV and AIDS – a new supplement
The Journal of the International AIDS Society, under the leadership of guest editor Linda Richter, is proud to introduce its supplement on ‘Family-centred… Read more »
Canine vector-borne diseases – a new thematic series
Parasites & Vectors has published a thematic series grouping together a number of articles recently presented at a symposium on canine vector-borne diseases… Read more »