Clinical Sarcoma Research (CSR) has launched with BioMed Central. CSR publishes the latest advances on rare solid cancers – sarcomas – and aims to be a platform for the sharing and discussion of clinical knowledge within this field. Editors-in-Chief, Paola Casali and Angelo Dei Tos highlight networking as vital for dealing with rare cancers, and therefore the journal… Read more »
The organizers of the 19th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) could not have predicted that the funeral of an heir to the imperial Hapsburg throne would draw the eyes of the world to Vienna on the July 16 2011, but so it was that the Viennese streets were overflowing with… Read more »
The second biennial Frontiers of Retrovirology meeting will take place Oct 3-5, 2011 in Amsterdam (see https://www.frontiers-of-retrovirology.com/ ). This conference promises to continue the small cutting-edge meeting format started in Montpellier, France, two years ago. For colleagues interested in a collegial atmosphere with outstanding science where you have plenty of opportunities to meet and mingle with all attendees,… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes Professor Debra Mohnen (University of Georgia) as a new Editor-in-Chief, joining Charles Wyman, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal and Mike Himmel at the helm. Debra becomes a successor to Chris Somerville, amongst the four Editors-in-Chief, in leading the way for plant science within the journal and providing complimentary expertise to her co-editors. Debra’s research… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes Professor Debra Mohnen (University of Georgia) as a new Editor-in-Chief, joining Charles Wyman, Bärbel Hahn-Hägerdal and Mike Himmel at the helm. Debra becomes a successor to Chris Somerville, amongst the four Editors-in-Chief, in leading the way for plant science within the journal and providing complimentary expertise to her co-editors. Debra’s research… Read more »
The Tree of Life is a powerfully attractive representation of an evolutionary process and pattern that has been severely challenged by the discovery of extensive horizontal gene transfer in bacteria, archaea and other organisms. To mark the 150 years since the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, a new thematic series, ‘Beyond the… Read more »
BioMed Central recently released the 2010 IAC unofficial IF of 2.33. An excellent result for a recently established journal. For any journal to have an Impact Factor it must be tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) for three years. Although many BioMed Central journals are tracked by Thomson Reuters, others are still relatively new. For further… Read more »
The Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is an Asian monkey that shares 93% of its DNA sequence with humans and, due to this similarity, is an important species for scientific study. Until now, work on the Rhesus macaque has largely focused on the Indian subspecies, but an article published in Genome Biology reports, for the first… Read more »
Come and visit BioMed Central at the upcoming 19thAnnual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and 10th European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2011), in Vienna 17 – 19 July, where we will be exhibiting at booth #11 right next door to our colleagues from Springer in booth #12. Drop by the booth to… Read more »