Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang, Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology, passed away on 27th January. We understand that Teh was well known and well liked by his friends and colleagues, so we would like to invite you share your memories and add your messages of condolences to this post. Below is a message about Teh from Dr Gottesman of… Read more »
Community based conservation (CBC) initiatives seek to unite the aims and purposes of projects working towards economic and ecological goals. They generally aim to promote socio-economic growth through the sustainable use of natural resources which are also of important conservation value. In this way, natural resources can be protected from overuse by an increased community… Read more »
So you have just spent the last couple of years on the project: using shiny brandnew machines to sequence the most complex genomes on Earth. You dotted your ‘i’s, crossed the ‘t’s, identified all ‘g’s and ‘c’s. From the (still growing) range of the available assemblers, you picked the one you thought best. And you… Read more »
All at BioMed Central are shocked and saddened by the news that Kuan-Teh Jeang, M.D., Ph.D. passed away suddenly on the evening of the 27th January 2013. Teh was a prominent figure in research on the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the human tumor virus HTLV, and published prolifically on the disease-causing mechanisms of both… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels is pleased to announce a special issue from the NSERC Bioconversion Network – a collaboration of academic and industry leaders, aimed at developing bio-based chemical and fuel products from forest biomass. Edited by Jack Saddler and Linoj Kumar, the special issue brings together findings from a recent workshop, focusing on the pretreatment… Read more »
Biotechnology for Biofuels is pleased to announce a special issue from the NSERC Bioconversion Network – a collaboration of academic and industry leaders, aimed at developing bio-based chemical and fuel products from forest biomass. Edited by Jack Saddler and Linoj Kumar, the special issue brings together findings from a recent workshop, focusing on the pretreatment… Read more »
GVN’s Three Action Platforms 1. Support for cutting edge research GVN supports its scientists through small grants that allow new lines of research to move forward. To ensure that medical virologists are in place to address future, yet unimagined viral challenges, GVN provides training fellowships for tomorrow’s leaders. GVN scientists share ideas and information to… Read more »
BioMed Central will be hosting this inaugural conference in association with its journal Epigenetics & Chromatin at Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, on the 11-13 March 2013. The conference will have a strong focus on how epigenetic components come together to regulate cellular processes. “Epigenetics research is progressing from a listing of component… Read more »
In 2011 Arumugam et al. described for the first time characteristic patterns of human gut microflora composition, which were seemingly preserved world-wide, across different nations and cultures. These patterns, named enterotypes, were defined by the significantly higher abundance of one of three bacterial genera: Bacteroides (enterotype 1), Prevotella (enterotype 2) and Ruminococcus (enterotype 3). This… Read more »
New journal Cancer & Metabolism launches today with a selection of articles that highlight the altered metabolic pathways that drive cancer. Altered glucose metabolism of tumor cells was first noted by Otto Warburg in the 1920s, for which he won the Nobel Prize. In later years, the discovery of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes transformed… Read more »