ExxonMobil and Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI, a biotechnology company) have announced a research partnership with the aim of developing biofuels from algae. In a statement from SGI, the company founder J Craig Venter described the long-term objective of the alliance to explore “the most efficient and cost effective ways to produce next generation biofuels using… Read more »
Retrovirology has recently published the meeting’s abstracts from the Fifth Dominique Dormont International Conference https://www.retrovirology.com/supplements/6/S1. Other meetings that have published their abstracts in Retrovirology can be viewed at https://www.retrovirology.com/supplements/. Why should meetings publish their abstracts with Retrovirology? First, not all colleagues can go to the meeting; and many who did not attend would like to view the… Read more »
At the 14th International Retrovirology Association (IRA) Conference held in Salvador, Brazil, July 2009, Retrovirology renamed its biennial HTLV-award as the Brady – Grassmann – Harrington HTLV Prize. This renaming was done in order to honor three esteemed HTLV-1 scientists who passed away recently (John Brady, Ralph Grassmann, and Bill Harrington). The first Brady-Grassmann-Harrington HTLV Prize was presented… Read more »
In “Squaring biofuels with food”, a forum discussion published in the latest edition of Issues in Science and Technology, leading biofuel researchers discuss the complex and controversial issue of the land use change associated with increased biofuel production. The forum is in response to an earlier article by Keith Kline and colleagues published in the… Read more »
Professor David Baulcombe, co-Editor-in-Chief of Silence, has been awarded a Knighthood for his services to plant science. David is Professor of Botany and Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University. His research interests include RNA silencing and protein-based innate immunity mechanisms in plants against pests and disease. Silence, a new open access journal soon to… Read more »
Last week BioMed Central exhibited at the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) & 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Stockholm, where 1,400 delegates descended upon Stockholm International Fairs. ISMB/ECCB is a great opportunity for us to meet with researchers who have published in our bioinformatics journals, such as… Read more »
Neural Development has published the first articles of a new review series, in which leading researchers present apparently conflicting interpretations in parallel. The series will focus on the mechanisms of neural development for which large data sets are available, but no consensus interpretation has emerged. By inviting the leading proponents of distinct viewpoints to present… Read more »