Merck’s experimental AIDS vaccine labeled a failure (Date posted: 24 September 2007) Pfizer’s CCR5-inhibitor approved in EU (Date posted: 24 September 2007) Fauci, Steinman, Carpentier, and Starr awarded Lasker Prizes (Date posted: 17 September 2007) Sex is the prime cause of China’s HIV (Date posted: 20 August 2007) FDA approves new CCR5 entry inhibitor (Date… Read more »
A recent open access article by Yuri Wolf and Eugene Koonin in Biology Direct (Biol Direct 2, 14; 2007) is discussed in Nature this week. In the Journal Club section of the magazine, where a researcher presents a paper of their choice from the last year, Eőrs Szathmáry highlights the significance of Wolf and Koonin’s… Read more »
There has been an explosion in research in systems biology over the past 5 years, and we recognized that there was a need for an open access journal spanning all of systems biology from molecules all the way up to ecosystems. The first articles in BMC Systems Biology were published in January and since then… Read more »
We are delighted to announce the publication of the 1,000th article in BMC Genomics! "Early activation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa reveals the architecture of a complex regulon" by Dr Martin Schuster at the University of Oregon and Prof E. Peter Greenberg at the University of Washington was published in August and is already… Read more »
Malaria Journal has published a series of articles on the World Antimalarial Resistance Drug Network (WARN). WARN is being launched with the aim of providing a globally co-ordinated effort to tackle malaria, by facilitating monitoring and characterisation of drug resistance. The articles lay the case for creating WARN, which will consist of four linked open-access… Read more »