Li Wu wrote the following for me to post on the Retrovirology Blog: Because of rapid research progress and advances in the techniques in studying HIV interactions with host cells and factors, there is a critical need for a book on HIV interactions with dendritic cells. Two editorial broad members of Retrovirology, Dr. Li Wu… Read more »
New young group leader opportunities in microbiology and virology available at Pasteur Institute, Paris. Please see the following link for more information. IBEID call Pasteur
Pat Green and Li Wu have asked me to post the following job announcement of an opening available at Ohio State University. Please visit the web link if you are interested: https://vet.osu.edu/biosciences/faculty-position-viral-oncology If you have job announcement that you would like to post at Retrovirology, please feel free to contact me. KT Jeang
Today marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s landmark—and controversial—book investigating the effects of pesticide use on the environment. In a special Editorial in BMC Ecology to mark the occasion, David Pimentel, Emeritus Professor of Ecology at Cornell University, offers a personal reflection of the impact of the work, which… Read more »
An EU policy U-turn was announced earlier this month, with draft legislation to impose limits across Europe on land-use for fuel crop production. Climate change Comissioner, Connie Hedegaard, proposes to cap land-use in Europe for biofuel production at 5% (currently 4.5%) and end subsidies for biomass production by 2020. EU policy has previously supported a… Read more »
Lithium is a ‘gold standard’ drug for treating bipolar disorder, however not everyone responds in the same way. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders finds that this is true at the levels of gene activation, especially in the activation or repression of genes which alter the… Read more »
We are pleased to announce that Thomson Reuters (ISI) have accepted Cell & Bioscience for citation tracking and we will be expecting the journal to receive its first Impact Factor in June 2013. This is really a great a achievement for such a new journal and we see it as testament to the high quality… Read more »
The study of biomarkers has evolved rapidly in the advance of personalized medicine and individual health. As a result, identification and validation of biomarkers in drug discovery and development, as well as in disease diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and prevention now plays an essential role in the genome era. Biomarker Research is a new, open… Read more »
Professor Linfa Wang has joined Virology Journal as Editor-in-Chief. Professor Wang is a leading researcher in emerging infections, including the discovery of novel, potentially zoonotic, viruses in bats. He is joined by ten new Section Editors and over eighty Associate Editors who together cover all aspects of virology, including the viruses of animals, plants and… Read more »
Unless you were in a science-free vacuum last week, you probably noticed the publication of over 30 ENCODE articles in a number journals, including BioMed Central's very own Genome Biology and BMC Genetics. Or if you didn't notice the publications themselves, you probably caught some of the controversy over the (allegedly) misleading "junking 'junk' DNA"… Read more »