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Kuan-Teh Jeang M.D., Ph.D
BMC Biology and all at BioMed Central are shocked and saddened by the news that Kuan-Teh Jeang, M.D., Ph.D. died suddenly on the evening of the 27th January 2013. Teh was an invaluable member of our Editorial Board, and we shall greatly miss his robust criticism and his energy and attack in the support of the journal. A short appreciation can be found in the blog on the BioMed Central portal. We should like to offer our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.
Selected articles
Review & comment
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Miranda RobertsonPit-bull reviewers and the editorial leash
BMC Biology operates on the principle that the function of a journal is to facilitate publication of sound research results. Miranda Robertson reviews in Q&A format the journal’s re-review opt-out policy and how it has worked over the four years of its operation.
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Sean MunroBeyond HeLa? Open questions in cell biology
In a contribution to the 10th anniversary series on open questions in biology, Sean Munro asks provocatively what there is left for cell biologists to do, and with great elan and a touch of waspish humor produces five unanswered questions on issues from the special properties of non-dividing cells to the architecture of the brain.
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Martijn Schenk, J Arjan de VisserTraversing the landscape of antibiotic resistance
Commenting on research in BMC Evolutionary Biology, Arjan de Visser and Martijn Schenk discuss how two genetic properties, pleiotropy and epistasis, might help us to predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance.
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Gillian GriffithsImmunological puzzles
Gillian Griffiths, in her ‘Open questions’ contribution for BMC Biology, pinpoints some critical missing links in the cell-biological specializations of immune cells
Research
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Anthony Saviola, David Chiszar, Chardelle Busch, Stephen MackessyMolecular basis for prey relocation in viperid snakes
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Anthony Olarerin-George, Lauren Anton, Yih-Chii Hwang, Michal Elovitz, John HogeneschA functional genomics screen for microRNA regulators of NF-kappaB signaling
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Grace Kenney, Amy RosenzweigGenome mining for methanobactins
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Jose Vinuelas, Gael Kaneko, Antoine Coulon, Elodie Vallin, Valerie Morin, Camila Mejia-Pous, Jean-Jacques Kupiec, Guillaume Beslon, Olivier GandrillonQuantifying the contribution of chromatin dynamics to stochastic gene expression reveals long, locus-dependent periods between transcriptional bursts
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Benjamin Arthur, Tomoko Sunayama-Morita, Philip Coen, Mala Murthy, David SternMulti-channel acoustic recording and automated analysis of Drosophila courtship songs
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Article collections
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Cell geometry
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Metabolism, diet and disease
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Ubiquitin signals and beyond
Collection published: 15 March 2012
Topical Q&As
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Extinctions - whose fault?
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What is regeneration?
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Is sugar toxic?
Luc Tappy
Article collections
- Metabolism, diet and disease
Collection published: 21 May 2012 - Ubiquitin signals and beyond
Collection published: 15 March 2012 - Focus on stem cells
Collection published: 7 June 2011
From the blog
- 01 March 2013
- Painful publishing ��� whose fault?
Twitter updates
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- Some #snakes will bite their prey, then leave it to crawl off and die. But how do they find it afterwards? http://t.co/hGA69LHzoq #biology 11:28 AM yesterday
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