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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.

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    Pit-bull reviewers and the editorial leash

    Miranda Robertson

    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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    Beyond HeLa? Open questions in cell biology

    Sean Munro

    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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    Traversing the landscape of antibiotic resistance

    Martijn Schenk, J Arjan de Visser

    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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    Immunological puzzles

    Gillian Griffiths

    Gillian Griffiths, in her ‘Open questions’ contribution for BMC Biology, pinpoints some critical missing links in the cell-biological specializations of immune cells

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BMC Biology assimilated the philosophy and distinguished Editorial Board and history of its sister journal Journal of Biology on fusion of the two journals in 2010. The full archive of Journal of Biology is available from its own archive website, and the objectives and aspirations of the combined journal are explained in the editorial that accompanied the fusion.

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