The magnetic resonance image on the right is my heart. It was taken a little while back when I took part in a clinical trial investigating the genetics of heart abnormalities. I was just one of many healthy(ish) volunteers recruited to provide data to be compared against patients whose heart function had gone awry. I… Read more »
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A few weeks back, staff here at BioMed Central took some time out to turn the tables on publishing science by becoming citizen scientists. Swapping the office environment for the great outdoors (well, a park in London), a small band of dedicated data-gatherers joined organisers of a new initiative lead by Imperial College London to… Read more »
What can the general public contribute to scientific research? Quite a lot as it turns out… Imagine how many hours are spent worldwide every day playing Bejeweled, or Angry Birds, or Candy Crush. We’d hesitate to even estimate, but it’s safe to say that it’s rather a lot. Now, imagine if all that time was… Read more »
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders is excited to be attending the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Annual Meeting 2013 held in San Diego, CA, from the 25th to the 30th of October. The ACR Annual Meeting is the premier scientific meeting devoted to the rheumatic diseases, bringing together thousands of rheumatologists and rheumatology health professionals from around… Read more »
BMC Public Health will be attending the American Public Health Association’s (APHA’s) 141st annual meeting and exposition held in Boston, MA from the 2nd to the 6th of November. This year’s theme ‘Think Global, Act Local’ aims to bring public health professionals the skills to address global health issues both at home and abroad by… Read more »
It was hard to keep politics out of the 2013 meeting of the Royal College of General Practitioners, held in Harrogate, UK earlier this month and attended by approximately 1700 practising GPs and primary care researchers – as well as BMC Family Practice. The reason for this? The UK government has recently enacted far-reaching reforms… Read more »
BMC International Health & Human Rights is excited to be attending the World Health Summit (WHS) 2013 held in Berlin, Germany, from 20-22 October. The WHS will bring together key stakeholders in international health and development, with a vision to improve health worldwide and set the agenda for future research, education and health care policy…. Read more »
Different strokes for different folks • Parasite oversight • A soft touch induces strong resistance • Image of the month • Undergrads sequence sea lions • Targeting microspheres to mesothelioma • Assess your horse tendon fibroblast “health” • Importance of monitoring renal function Medical Education: Different strokes for different folks A recent study in BMC… Read more »
Among the many strategies that prey species use to avoid being eaten is camouflage. But how is this strategy affected if the prey species exists in different colour morphs and different habitat types? A recent experiment from researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and Åbo Akademi University in Finland investigated this very question, using pygmy… Read more »
BMC Bioinformatics launches its latest article collection today, focusing on Bioimage Informatics. Edited by Ivo Sbalzarini, Pavel Tomancak and Hanchuan Peng, Section Editor for BMC Bioinformatics (Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA), this thematic series focuses on the latest developments in the emerging field of computational analysis, management, visualization, and mining of biological images…. Read more »