BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, social, evolutionary and educational psychology. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies. We have a world class editorial board across all genres of psychology. For… Read more »
You like pretty flowers but your immune system hates their pollen? You wish your pretty flowers would bloom for just that little bit longer? Well, science is making it happen. In a new article published today in BMC Plant Biology, Begoña García-Sogo and colleagues from the Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP)… Read more »
Research published today in Virology Journal describes a new model to study chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, which could be used to determine risk factors and test treatments for the disease. HBV is estimated to infect one third of the world’s population at some point in their lives, leading to cirrhosis of the liver… Read more »
One of the most awe-inspiring features of life is that every organism, from the sophistication of Albert Einstein to the minimalist existence of the simplest bacterium, is coded for by a genome sharing the same set of four bases: A, T, G and C. While there is an attractive mathematical elegance to the power of… Read more »
Research published today in Virology Journal shows the remarkable evolutionary history of an important group of viruses. The Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses (NCLDV) comprise at least six families of viruses that infect a broad variety of eukaryotic hosts. Poxviridae, Asfarviridae, Iridoviridae, Ascoviridae, Phycodnaviridae, and Mimiviridae are all thought to have evolved from one ancestral virus… Read more »
Moles have specialised morphological features, that are highly adapted for their unusual underground lifestyle. One of the most apparent of these features is their specialised forelimbs, which are larger and more robust than their hind limbs. It has been hypothesized that this may be caused by differences in timing (heterochrony) in developmental mechanisms.In new research… Read more »