The 2011 Impact Factor for journals tracked by ISI Reuters Thomson has been released. Retrovirology’s new Impact Factor places it at the forefront of virology journals that publish orginal basic research. A listing of Retrovirology and competitor journals is enumerated as follows: Retrovirology (6.470), AIDS (6.245), Journal of Virology (5.402), J. General Virology (3.363 ),… Read more »
I recently attended the ESF Research Conference "Antiviral RNAi" June 11-15th in Pultusk, Poland. Ben Berkhout, one of Retrovirology’s Associate editors, was a co-organizer of the meeting. Below is a group picture taken at the Polonia Castle in Pultusk. Several very interesting talks were presented at this conference, and a meeting report is slated to… Read more »
A challenge that confronts all researchers who collect vast quantities of data, be they behavioural measurements such as an animal’s height or depth, flying or swimming speeds, movement along three axes, or environmental measurements of temperature and irradiance levels, is how best to distil them to answer important scientific questions. Animal Biotelemetry is a new… Read more »
The 28th International Papillomavirus Conference and Clinical and Public Health Workshops is going to be held in San Juan (Puerto Rico) on Nov 30-Dec 6, 2012. The event will be held at the Puerto Rico Convention Center the newest, largest and most advanced Convention Center in the Caribbean, architecturally dynamic in structure and with spacious areas that… Read more »
The demise of investment in Jatropha was reported in a previous post in this blog in 2009. Amidst controversy over the water footprint of Jatropha (in which the crop was found to yield a poor energy return per unit of water) BP backed out of a $160 million joint venture with D1 oils to exploit… Read more »
1The use of DNA profiling is a well documented and widely used technique in crime scene investigations. Rapid advances in technology for DNA sequencing have provided crime fighters with valuable additional tools for investigations and led to increased prosecutions. While the use of DNA sequencing is heavily relied upon, it remains a rapidly evolving field,… Read more »
Hot on the heels of personal genomics has come personal methylomics, where researchers use high-throughput methods to interrogate the DNA methylation landscape of individual human genomes. DNA methylation is thought to be an important mechanism by which cells regulate gene expression, but how does this regulation vary between and within individuals? To appreciate how important… Read more »
1We are pleased to welcome on board Dr Henry Heng as co-Editor-in-Chief for Molecular Cytogenetics. Dr Heng is an Associate Professor at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Michigan and his research is currently focused on the genome theory of cancer and organismal evolution. He joins Thomas Liehr, Institute of Human Genetics, Germany,… Read more »
Fibrogenesis & Tissue Repair has published a supplement of proceedings from the Fibroproliferative disorders: from biochemical analysis to targeted therapies conference, held in Frauenchiemsee, Germany, 25-30 September 2010. The conference brought together a number of experts in the field of tissue fibrogenesis, with the aim to provoke discussion into the pathological processes of tissue fibrogenesis… Read more »
The third Global Virus Network Meeting is going to be held in Naples from 07 to 09 June. The GVN was established in March 2011at the Italian Embassy in Washington DC by Drs. Robert Gallo of the Institute of Human Virology in Baltimore, Reinhard Kurth, of the Robert Koch Institute Berlin, and William Hall, of… Read more »