July has been a fantastic month for the BMC-series! The sun has finally shone on our London offices after weeks of rain, we have our first video highlight, Darwin the puppy made two appearances on the BMC Genetics homepage (see more below) and we published the following great articles. Oh and there’s some sporting event… Read more »
BMC Biology publishes today a research article (from Chiari et al) on the placement of turtles in the evolutionary tree, which supports their position as a sister group to the birds and crocodiles (collectively called the archosaurs). This isn’t the first time that a similar placement has been supported, as Blair Hedges – who published… Read more »
Ever wondered what 48 hours in the life and death of a cell looks like? I guess most people’s answers to that questions might be “no”, but honestly – it’s fascinating. Programmed Cell Death (PCD) occurs in both plants and animals, and is quite often a tightly regulated series of events. Sometimes these events can… Read more »
BMC Plant Biology will be escaping the Olympic madness in London next week for the rather more sedate – but no less exciting – surroundings of beautiful Freiburg, in south-west Germany, for the Plant Biology Congress 2012. This year’s congress is jointly organized by The Federation of European Societies of Plant Biologists (FESPB) and the… Read more »
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, affecting 46,000 women each year. HER2, a cell surface receptor belonging to the family of epidermal growth factor receptors, is over-expressed in 30% of breast cancer patients, and these “HER2 positive” patients respond well to HER2-targeted therapies. New research published in BMC Medicine by Parul… Read more »
The Four Principles, originally devised by Beauchamp and Childress in their textbook Principles of Biomedical Ethics, are considered by many as the standard theoretical framework from which to analyse ethical situations in medicine.
The BMC-series is a big fan of twitter (@BMC-series) and an even bigger fan of promoting scientific discussion and debate. Virtual journal clubs allow researchers all over the world to interact using tweets to discuss articles and next week BMC Microbiology is under the spotlight! The following guest blog from Emma Trantham invites you to… Read more »
BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics will be attending the upcoming ISMB Conference in Long Beach California, July 15th – 17th. We should be delighted to meet you at the conference. We will be located at Booth 36 and you can meet us there during the conference. We should be most interested to hear your views on… Read more »
Stroke occurs when the blood supply to the brain is cut off, resulting in cell damage and death due to lack of oxygen and nutrients. Facial weakness, arm weakness, difficulty with speech and time to call emergency services (FAST test) are the most common signs of stroke. A stroke can happen in two main ways:… Read more »
You might think that banging together two metal bars in close proximity to a penguin would be cruel. But it turns out that they actually don’t seem to mind too much, at least not if they’ve lived alongside similar noises for the last 50 years or so. A new article published today in BMC Ecology… Read more »