It’s two years now since the journals BMC Pharmacology and BMC Clinical Pharmacology merged to create BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology. Chris Morrey, the Executive Editor for the journal marks the occasion with a birthday post over on the BMC series blog. In merging a biology journal that has ‘traditional’ anonymous peer review (BMC Pharmacology) with… Read more »
In just a month’s time from now, Mozilla will be hosting their annual Mozilla Festival (“MozFest” for short), which for the 2nd year will feature a Science Track, which this year we will be contributing to through a 3-hour sprint on author contributorship, the journal article, and the Open Badges Infrastructure. We’re organising this with our friends… Read more »
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) North American Seminar was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA this August with a record breaking attendance from across the region of 81 delegates, including myself representing BioMed Central. The focus of the seminar was new technologies and behaviors for identifying publication ethics issues and those present were fortunate to be involved… Read more »
Last year, a rainbow coalition of civil liberties campaigners, cancer patients and eminent geneticists – heck, even Jim Watson! – argued before the US Supreme Court that gene sequences are a product of nature and therefore ineligible for patent protection. And the Supreme Court replied, in all its refined wisdom: 'Well, duh!' A nine-to-nothing unanimous… Read more »
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Missed out on some of our posts from the last month? Not for much longer! Here’s a selection of our most popular posts for you to read at leisure. 10 things you might not know about breastfeeding Did you know that telephone support can help new mothers to breastfeed? Or that a cyber version of… Read more »