A team led by David Adams from The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and colleagues at the MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit and Case Western Reserve University demonstrate the application of next-generation sequencing to re-sequence whole mouse chromosomes for genetic studies in an article published today in Genome Biology. Currently only a single mouse genome sequence is… Read more »
EvoDevo, a new open access journal on the hot topic of evolutionary developmental biology, is ready to accept submissions. Topics of interest include comparative gene function and expression, homology and character evolution, comparative genomics, phylogenetics and palaeontology. This soon-to-be launched BioMed Central journal is overseen by co-Editors-in-Chief Mark Q Martindale (University of Hawaii, USA) and… Read more »
No, not Ockham’s razor and the parsimony principle. Ockham’s broom, newer by some centuries, is an implement conceived by Sydney Brenner whereby inconvenient facts are swept under the carpet, and now adopted by Journal of Biology as the umbrella title for a new series in which the inconvenient facts hitherto resolutely ignored by some subsection… Read more »
BioMed Central has recently launched the Stem Cell Gateway, providing easy access to all the latest stem cell related research published across BioMed Central’s journals. The Gateway complements our new journal Stem Cell Research & Therapy – the major forum for translational research into stem cell therapies – which is now accepting submissions. The Stem… Read more »
This morning Maureen Shuh, a former post doctoral fellow with David Derse, wrote me to say "It is with great sadness that I inform you that Dr. David Derse passed away last night. He had advanced stage liver cancer which was not diagnosed until several weeks ago at which point it was too late. He… Read more »
Retrovirology / Cancer Research / Stanislav Indik, Walter Günzburg University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria A four year PostDoc position is available in the Institute of Virology (Department of Pathobiology) at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Large body of scientific evidence suggests that a retrovirus that is closely related to the mouse mammary tumor… Read more »
The Retrovirology Prize alternates yearly between recognizing a non-HIV retrovirologist (2009 and odd years) and an HIV retrovirologist (2008 and even years). There can be some discretion on this guideline, exercised from time-to-time by the selection committee. Any individual can initiate a nomination of others or self-nominate. A nomination includes a statement (1000 words or… Read more »
Retrovirology completed its first meeting September 21 – 23 in Montpellier, France. The meeting was organized locally by Monsef Benkirane with support from BMC Staff, Matt McKay and Charlotte Webber. Over 260 registrants attended this first meeting organized by the journal. Abstracts from this meeting are published and can be accessed at the following link:… Read more »