Every day, more than 5 million people worldwide struggle with the often debilitating health consequences of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a chronic autoimmune disease capable of damaging virtually any part of the body, including the joints, skin, lungs and brain. SLE makes the immune system unable to differentiate between antigens and healthy tissue, which causes… Read more »
The incidence of maternal obesity is on the rise, with one in five pregnant women estimated to be obese. This poses great risk for both mother and baby; obese women are more likely to develop gestational diabetes and gestational hypertension than mothers of normal weight, and pregnant women with extreme obesity are at 1.6 times… Read more »
1Cancer bioinformatics: bioinformatic methods, network biomarkers and precision medicine, a collaborative series involving BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Cancer, BMC Medicine, Genome Medicine and Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics (JCBi) has published its first set of articles on May 1st 2012. Edited by Xiangdong Wang, Editor in Chief for Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics (Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Biomedical… Read more »