Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, the official journal of the Brazilian Diabetes Society (SBD), has launched with BioMed Central as the eighth addition to the Independent Journals Portfolio this year. Through reporting on basic research and clinical studies exploring any area of research into diabetes and metabolic syndrome, the journal hopes to provide a means of… Read more »
Genomic data continue to accumulate at an ever-increasing rate, and the question of how best to exploit this for human disease research and therapy is critical. Nicki Tiffin and colleagues discuss computational methods for efficient identification of disease-gene associations in “Linking genes to disease: it’s all in the data”, a Review article recently published in… Read more »
Most of the content of the World Health Organisation International Clinical Trial Registry Platform (WHO ICTRP) has now been translated into the 6 UN languages: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Arabic, in the hopes that this will enable improved awareness of clinical trial registration in non-English speaking countries. The WHO ICTRP was created to… Read more »
“Musings on genome medicine: the value of family history”, a guest Musings article published this week in Genome Medicine, argues that genome sequencing will not supersede family history information in the assessment of disease risk any time soon. Professor Angus Clarke emphasizes that while the potential for access to complete genomic information from healthy individuals… Read more »