This year, the annual Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting is being held in Vancouver, British Columbia from Saturday May 2nd to Tuesday May 6th, and BMC Pediatrics will be attending. PAS is the largest conference focusing on child health, and brings together researchers and clinicians from all areas of child health, with approximately 3800 presenting… Read more »
Last month saw the annual joint Spring conference of the annual British Society of Cell Biology and British Society of Developmental Biology at the University of Warwick. BMC Cell Biology and BMC Developmental Biology were lucky enough to attend. As is often the case, although a national conference it attracted a diverse range of speakers… Read more »
This year the British Society for Haematology’s Annual Meeting is being held in Birmingham, UK, and BMC Hematology will be there. The program will cover all aspects of hematology, and promises to be an extremely interesting conference. If you would like to meet to discuss your work, the current state of your field, publishing in… Read more »
We take a look back at recent developments in the fast-paced field of metagenomics – and look forward to what the future has in store The term metagenomics first appeared in a publication in 1998 and according to Wikipedia ‘…is the study of metagenomes, genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples‘, and involves the sequencing… Read more »
BMC Nursing announces a new Editorial Board of distinguished Section Editors BMC Nursing is proud of the progress it has made since its launch back in 2001. The journal has grown steadily each year, continuing as a preeminent open access journal in its field. Nursing practice is both a science and an art. It requires… Read more »
The evolutionary history of lions is opaque, as most of the sub-species that once roamed the Old World are now extinct. However new research, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, uses ancient DNA from extinct lions to piece together the gaps in their history. The findings provide both a new understanding of the lion’s past and… Read more »
The charmingly named bushbabies (or galagos, from the family name Galagidae) are famously large-eyed nocturnal primates, native to continental Africa. An intriguing family, the Galagidae contains one of the smallest living primates, Galagoides rondoensis, weighing in at ~60g but it is also home to some species that can grow as large as a domestic cat…. Read more »
• Great tits hide their success • Soccer surface injury risk • Can students afford to specialise? • Cognitive enhancement in the healthy? • Coffee can help! • Nanoscale chromatin changes precede cancer • Liver transplant of inverted organs • Evolutionary biology: Great tits hide their success Pied flycatchers (Ficedula hypoleuca) have been shown to… Read more »
World Health Day, which is celebrated on the 7th of April, selects a high priority theme for Public Health every year. This year’s goal for World Health Day is to raise awareness of the threats vectors and vector-borne diseases pose to communities and to empower people across the globe to protect themselves. The World Health… Read more »
BMC Veterinary Research editorial adviser Professor Chris Proudman, leads Grand National vet team and chats about improvements to equine welfare Professor Chris Proudman, Head of the University of Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine, will soon swap Surrey for the racecourse at Aintree, where he will be part of the team overseeing the health and welfare… Read more »