I received an announcement (see below) by email this past Thursday (January 29th) on the passing of Bill Harrington. Dr. Harrington was a colleague who had contributed immensely to HTLV-1 research. He will be missed. "To all faculty, staff and students of the Miller School of Medicine, We are deeply saddened to announce that Dr. William… Read more »
Miranda Robertson What is the re-review opt-out experiment?Read the editorial in Journal of Biology, I’m not repeating myself. (But briefly, where authors have revised their paper in response to referees they will be asked to choose whether referees see it again.) Why should referees bother to review papers if they know their criticisms can be… Read more »
Five years ago, Lincoln Stein, then a bioinformatician based at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, predicted that bioinformatics would cease to exist as a separate discipline within ten years. He envisioned that it would inevitably be absorbed into other biological disciplines that would increasingly take computational tools and methods for granted. At the midway point on… Read more »
This post is from Omar Khan and Tim Brookes of Writers Without Borders: The following reflects Tim and my experiences while working with the World Health Organization in northwest Pakistan. Tim, a science writer and NPR commentator, was there to write about one of the most massive global health undertakings: the eradication of polio. I… Read more »
Genetics Selection Evolution has recently joined the growing number of journals opting to transfer to BioMed Central’s open access platform. In the inaugural Editorial that opens the journal’s forty-first year of publication, Executive Editor Helene Hayes reflects on the collective sentiment of the journal’s Editors, explaining: “Converting GSE to open access to provide an online… Read more »
Professor Jean-Luc Darlix has written me to tell me about a ‘VIRUS & IMMUNITY’ course that is being organized at ENS Sciences, LYON. The course will include the latest data on HIV-1 amongst other topics, and will include discussions on the relevant recent literature. Interested individuals should visit the website: https://masterbiosciences.ens-lyon.fr/semestres-2-3-et-4/ue-europe/virus-and-immunity/virus-and-immunity Or you can email Jean-Luc Darlix directly… Read more »
A recent review article [Simmons BA, Loque D, Blanch HW: Next-generation biomass feedstocks for biofuel production. Genome Biol 2008, 9:242] published in Genome Biology highlights the use of lignocellulosic biomass to produce second generation biofuels. Simmons, Loque and Blanch describe how hybrid poplar, eucalyptus, loblolly pine, willow and silver maple could be grown throughout the… Read more »
Today, Journal of Biomedical Science published its first articles as an open access publication. As an established journal launched in 1994, Journal of Biomedical Science is indexed in MEDLINE and Web of Science and has an Impact Factor of 2.02. Editor-in-Chief Professor Michael M. C. Lai discusses in his Editorial how the transition to BioMed… Read more »
Following the successful launch of Epigenetics & Chromatin earlier this year, a special print issue containing some of the first articles will be available at the forthcoming Keystone Symposium ‘Epigenetics, Development & Human Disease’ (Breckenridge, Colorado; Jan 5th-10th). Although only a recent addition to BioMed Central’s online open access journals, Epigenetics & Chromatin has already published… Read more »