Dr. Ségolène Aymé is the Editor-in-Chief for Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. She is the founder of Orphanet, and chair of the Topic Advisory Group on rare diseases at the World Health Organization. Here she talks about Rare Disease Day and why it is so important to have a day dedicated to this, despite the scarcity of the diseases.
Today is Rare Disease Day, aiming to make the voice of rare diseases heard. Here we’ve put together some questions intended to trial your knowledge and open your eyes to some of the challenges patients and researchers come across when facing such diseases.
Earlier this year, Findacure, in conjunction with Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, announced the winner of its student essay competition on rare diseases (The Student Voice). European medical and biological undergraduate students gave their rare disease opinions, experience, and knowledge, in response to one of three topic choices. While the overall winning essay by Roberta Garau is set for publication in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, we are proud to bring you some of our top choices in this week leading up to Rare Disease Day.
The African Organization for Research and Training on Cancer (AORTIC) has just established an affiliation with Infectious Agents and Cancer Open Access online journal. The two entities have been collaborating for several years, as for the Meeting coverage on the journal (2011 AORTIC Meeting in Cairo) and the active participation of AORTIC council members to… Read more »
Earlier this year, Findacure, in conjunction with Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, announced the winner of its student essay competition on rare diseases (The Student Voice). European medical and biological undergraduate students gave their rare disease opinions, experience, and knowledge, in response to one of three topic choices. While the overall winning essay by Roberta Garau is set for publication in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, we are proud to bring you some of our top choices in this week leading up to Rare Disease Day.
To combat plant disease, identifying the virulence factors responsible is essential, and difficult. Screening for plant immune receptors carrying unusual domains could provide a shortcut.
Earlier this year, Findacure, in conjunction with Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, announced the winner of its student essay competition on rare diseases (The Student Voice). European medical and biological undergraduate students gave their rare disease opinions, experience, and knowledge, in response to one of three topic choices. While the overall winning essay by Roberta Garau is set for publication in Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, we are proud to bring you some of our top choices in this week leading up to Rare Disease Day.
January 2016 saw Helgoland Marine Research, an important journal in the world of polar marine research, moved to BioMed Central, becoming fully open access. We spoke to the new Editor-in-Chief, Maarten Boersma about this exciting new path for the journal.
It’s nearly Valentine’s Day, but what attracts you to your partner? One study published in Genome Biology finds it could be the height of your partner, and that this attraction could be genetic! Danielle explains more about the research.
Zika virus has been declared a global health emergency following an outbreak detected in Brazil last year, which has moved into more than 20 countries in Latin America. I asked Dr Claudia Nunes Duarte dos Santos, Associate Editor at Virology Journal and whose laboratory is responsible for confirming cases of Zika virus in Brazil, more about the virus.