Monthly Archives: April 2007

Retrovirology editor recognized with award

BioMed Central would like to congratulate Kuan-Teh Jeang, Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology, on receiving the 2007 Distinguished Research Career Award from Ohio State University Center for Retrovirus Research. Dr Jeang is section head of Molecular Virology, at the NIAID, National Institutes of Health and has made fundamental discoveries of retrovirus-host interactions that contribute to cancer and… Read more »

Dosage compensation is less effective in birds than in mammals

The latest collection of articles in Journal of Biology is now available to view free of charge on the Journal of Biology website. In this recent research article, Arthur Arnold and colleagues show that there is an overdose of sex-linked genes in birds. The male:female ratios of gene expression in zebra finch and chicken reveal… Read more »