The incidence of maternal obesity is on the rise, with one in five pregnant women estimated to be obese. This poses great risk for both mother and baby; obese women are more likely to develop gestational diabetes and gestational hypertension than mothers of normal weight, and pregnant women with extreme obesity are at 1.6 times… Read more »
BMC Infectious Diseases has published its first supplement of abstracts from the 4th National and 1st International Science Symposium on HIV and Infectious Diseases, held in Chennai, India earlier this year. The aim of the conference was to “address key scientific issues, gaps in knowledge and an opportunity to identify priorities for future action”. The… Read more »
Cancer bioinformatics: bioinformatic methods, network biomarkers and precision medicine, a collaborative series involving BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Cancer, BMC Medicine, Genome Medicine and Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics (JCBi) has published its first set of articles on May 1st 2012. Edited by Xiangdong Wang, Editor in Chief for Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics (Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Biomedical… Read more »
BMC Ecology is celebrating after having recently published research recognized for its excellence at the 2011 BioMed Central Research Awards. The study by Christoph von Beeren and colleagues from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Technical University Braunschweig and University Malaya, won the category award for “Plant, Animal Sciences and Veterinary Research”, judged by a leading panel… Read more »