The free exchange of scientific and medical information can play an important role in international development.
BioMed Central provides free, immediate and permanent online access to the full text of all articles published within its portfolio of over 200 peer-reviewed journals, and through its open access waiver fund, ensures that scientific authors in low-income countries do not face financial barriers to publishing in open access journals.
Open access provides a way for researchers from low-income countries to participate more fully in the international research community, and so BioMed Central has created a set of initiatives designed to increase the visibility and output of scientific research from these countries.
Research highlights
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Investigative Genetics 2013, 4:6Whats the beef?
As the worldwide meat scandal continues, this new research reports that almost 80% of 146 South African meat samples were incorrectly labelled using mitochondrial COI DNA barcoding and cyt b sequencing.
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BMC Psychology 2013, 1:3HIV associated with impaired emotion processing
Facial emotion recognition depends on cortical and subcortical networks that can be damaged due to HIV infection, making people with HIV less able to recognize facial emotion than non-infected individuals.
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Genome Biology 2013, 14:107CRISPR cuts
Srinivasan Chandrasegaran and colleagues explain how recent advances in mammalian genome engineering exploit the natural properties of the bacterial CRISPR system
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