27/10/2014 Christopher Foote

The number of giraffe subspecies, and the relationship between them, remains controversial. Research, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, uses a new analysis of mitochondrial DNA to help resolve these questions, with implications for the conservation of these unique animals. How to recognise a giraffe Giraffes, unsurprisingly for such distinct animals, have long attracted considerable interest… Read more »

22/10/2014 Hayley Henderson

Research published today in BMC Veterinary Research has added to a growing body of literature that suggests the evidence-base in some areas of veterinary science is still poor, or even lacking.  In this guest post, researchers at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) Canine Epilepsy Clinic describe some of the issues they encountered when conducting the… Read more »

15/10/2014 Magdalena Morawska

BMC Gastroenterology is excited to be attending the United European Gastroenterology Week 2014 held in Vienna , 20-22 October. In addition to attending the scientific sessions, Executive Editor Magdalena Morawska is very interested in meeting with researchers to discuss their work and possible involvement in the Editorial Board of the journal. If you are attending the… Read more »

14/10/2014 Guest

Janas Harrington is a lecturer at University College Cork with an interest nutritional epidemiology and public health nutrition and Eimear Keane is a PhD student at the department of epidemiology and public health at University College Cork with a focus on trends and determinants of  childhood obesity. Both are co-authors on a research article published in… Read more »

10/10/2014 alicemurray

  It’s World Mental Health Day 2014 and BMC Psychiatry discusses why we should all be thinking about “living with schizophrenia”.     You may not know it yet, but you have been living with schizophrenia.  So has the person sitting next to you, and the person next to them (you see where I’m going… Read more »

06/10/2014 Alanna Orpen

“An endorheic basin in Death Valley, California. Although annualprecipitation rarely exceeds 100 mm/yr, a small number of plants are able to survive on the gravely slopes of the valley and on the muddy lakebed. Thousands of years ago this valley would have been far more wet and lushly vegetated.” Ever since he was young, Benjamin… Read more »