It is not unusual per se for Nobel laureates to be quoted at genomics conferences, but it is perhaps a little out of the ordinary when the Nobel Prize in question is for Literature. But, then again, the Wellcome Trust's 'Genomic Disorders 2013: From 60 years of DNA to human genomes in the clinic' was… Read more »
BMC Biology began ten years ago, and BioMed Central three years earlier, right at the beginning of open-access publishing in biology. As part of BMC Biology’s 10-year anniversary, Editorial Board member Pat Brown (right) talks about the origins of open access and the circumstances that led him to become one of the early open access… Read more »
Agriculture & Food Security publishes a new thematic series on ‘Climate Smart Agriculture’. Global warming represents one of the greatest threats to society worldwide. The dual burden of climate change coupled with exponentially increasing populations means that our agricultural systems are under increasing pressure to produce food in unstable environmental conditions. The struggle to reach… Read more »
Edouard Van Beneden and Theodor Boveri first described the centrosome as “the organ for cell division” in the 1880s, so you might think it is an essential component of cells. Not so, according to Monica Bettencourt-Dias in her Question and Answer article in BMC Biology, where she assembles accumulating recent evidence that despite its apparent… Read more »
Several recently published studies have suggested that chronic stress in early life may affect the brain’s reaction to certain stimuli, causing changes in the fear response. These changes have been associated with the development of phobias and anxiety disorders, and therefore it is hoped that by furthering our understanding of this process, clinical treatments may… Read more »
A new short video has just been released highlighting Burkitt Lymphoma and EMBLEM activities in this area, including information on the Workshop in Mwanza last September. The video was a collaborative project bringing local groups together to empower and recognize people who are working in the Burkitt Lymphoma area. The animation in the video was… Read more »
Animal Biotelemetry, a new open access journal published by BioMed Central has launched today. This new journal aims to support the telemetry community by providing a single home for this research and disseminating findings widely across all users of tagging telemetric technology. Through recent advances in technology, there has been an acceleration in the uses… Read more »