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3rd International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the United Nations

12/02/2018

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Faye Nourollahi

Faye is a Journal Development Editor for the BMC series of Springe Nature. She has a graduate degree in biology with a focus on endocrinology from the University of California, San Diego, and has worked as a researcher in academia and private industry before entering publishing

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• Watching cancer cells take over - 8th October 2018
• 3rd International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the United Nations - 12th February 2018

On February 8th and 9th at the United Nations headquarters in NYC, the Royal Academy of Science International Trust held a program… Read more »

Best of 2017: Top Picks from Genome Biology

15/12/2017

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As we near the end of 2017, Dominique Morneau of Genome Biology highlights some of the editors’ favorite articles from the past… Read more »

Power to the pee-ple

10/05/2016

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Can urine be used as a practical source of electricity? Guest blogger Xavier Alexis Walter discusses a recent advance in scaling… Read more »

Can fungi solve malaria and other insect-borne diseases?

25/04/2016

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Fungal Biology and Biotechnology student prizewinner, Brian Lovett explains why fungi are the ultimate nemesis of insects. The… Read more »

Why we created glow in the dark magnetic sperm

23/03/2016

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Publishing in Journal of Nanobiotechnology, researchers use bioluminescent magnetic nanoparticles to allow imaging and… Read more »

Reversing climate change: planetary engineering and experimental technologies

12/10/2015

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Alexander Mulhern

Journal Development Manager at BMC

Alexander looks after BMC's animal and plant journals, with a special focus on marine sciences. On his downtime he can be found at live music and comedy, or running RPG's.

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• Where’s the Whale? Quiz - 15th February 2019
• What webs we weave: spiders influence on food webs above and below ground - 7th March 2018
• World Oceans Day 2017 – State of the Seven Seas - 8th June 2017

In 1964 the Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev proposed a scale to measure the level of a civilisation’s technological… Read more »

Thematic series on Systems biotechnology and metabolic engineering

14/02/2013

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Helen Whitaker

Journal Development Manager at BioMed Central

Helen is part of the Biological Sciences publishing team at BioMed Central. She obtained her PhD in molecular ecology from the University of Glasgow, UK. Her post-doctoral studies in aquaculture genetics took her from Scotland to South Africa, before joining BMC in 2008.

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• Biotechnology for a bio-based economy - 5th June 2019
• Sustainable energy at the American Chemical Society Spring meeting - 11th April 2018
• Biotechnology for Biofuels – Special Issue on Life Cycle Analysis - 17th May 2017

Microbial Cell Factories invites submissions to a special thematic series on Systems biotechnology and metabolic engineering, … Read more »