This week BioMed Central exhibited at the Experimental Biology meeting in Anaheim, USA where 10,000 delegates descended upon the Convention Centre which was conveniently located next door to Disneyland. This meeting provided the ideal opportunity to celebrate the relaunch of our new improved BMC Biology incorporating Journal of Biology. To mark the occasion, the journal’s… Read more »
“Cancer is, in some sense, a condensed-time laboratory of evolution” says Marek Kimmel, in an Editorial to introduce a new thematic series published in Biology Direct. The series brings together cancer researchers and mathematicians to provide insight into the various ways that evolutionary mechanisms relate to cancer, and how these mechanisms can be modeled mathematically…. Read more »
Congratulations to those who left The British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting 2010 with a £150 prize, awarded by BioMed Central on behalf of Parasites & Vectors and Malaria Journal, for exceptional presentations. The meeting brought together parasitologists from the UK and overseas, with over one hundred oral and poster presentations entered for the Student… Read more »
The Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, Maryland will hold its 12th Annual International Meeting Oct 4-8th, 2010, in Tropea, Calabria, Italy. A meeting poster is shown below, and interested colleagues should consult the following website to view the program and registration information. https://medschool.umaryland.edu/ihv_meeting/
Sloth hair is long and coarse and depending on the species can contain either a number of grooves or irregular transverse cracks that increase in number and size with the age of the animal. These features are ideal for inhabitation by a wide variety of organisms, ranging from moths, beetles, and cockroaches to ciliates, fungi,… Read more »
This month Retrovirology has published a series of reviews on HIV and macrophages. This is an important topic that is comprehensively covered by these 8 papers. Below is a listing of the 7 review articles and 1 summarizing commentary. These articles have been catalyzed by the efforts of Monsef Benkirane who is the Retrovirology editor… Read more »
In a recent report, Zheng et al demonstrate a technique for the specific inhibition of miRNA expression in Caenorhabditis elegans using modified antisense oligonucleotides, which could be utilized as a potent tool for the study of regulation and function of miRNAs in vivo. Their article is published in Silence, and is discussed further in a… Read more »
The zebra finch joins the chicken today as the second bird species to have its genome fully sequenced. The abilities of this bird to learn songs makes the zebra finch an attractive species to study the neurobiology and evolution of learned behavior. Songbird studies will also shed light on cognitive processes involved in vocal communication… Read more »