Wednesday 16 July 2008

It was recently announced that Kuan-Teh Jeang, Editor-in-Chief of Retrovirology, has been elected to Academia Sinica, the preeminent academic institution in Taiwan. This honour recognises Professor Jeang's significant contributions to HIV and retrovirus research.

3 BioMed Central journals added to MEDLINE
Biology Direct, Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Neural Development have all been accepted for inclusion in MEDLINE following review by the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee.


Two new thematic series on public health issues published
Australia and New Zealand Health Policy  

As part of a thematic series Obesity - should there be a law against it? the journal Australia and New Zealand Health Policy has published a number of articles discussing the roles that law and regulations can play in the issues surrounding obesity.

Human Resources for Health  

Human Resources for Health aims to generate discussion and invites readers to post a comment on the journal blog or to individual articles published in the series Leadership and management in public health.

New supplements
Breast Cancer Research   Breast Cancer Research has published the abstracts from Symposium Mammographicum 2008 held in Lille, France on 6-8 July 2008.
 
BMC Bioinformatics   BMC Bioinformatics has published the abstracts from the UT-ORNL-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit 2008 held in Cadiz, KY, USA on 28-30 March 2008.
 
BMC Neuroscience   BMC Neuroscience has published the abstracts from the Seventeenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2008 to be held in Portland, OR, USA on 19-24 July 2008.

 New from Journal of Biology

A minireview by Nazif Alic and Linda Partridge explains the characterization of Imp-L2, the first functional insulin-binding protein to be identified in invertebrates by Ernst Hafen and colleagues, published in BMC Biology recently.

 

Stage debut for the elusive Drosophila insulin-like growth factor binding protein
Nazif Alic and Linda Partridge
Journal of Biology 2008, 7:18

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Estradiol improves risk prediction model
Breast Cancer Research 2008, 10:R55
Serum estradiol levels in postmenopausal women appear to add to other lifestyle factors in predicting a woman's individual risk of breast cancer and may contribute significantly to current risk prediction models.

     
 

Drug resistance in cattle pathogens
Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2008, 50:28 Continuous monitoring of antimicrobial resistance profiles in cattle pathogens across Europe shows a distinct geographical pattern and should inform future use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine.
     

Review
What makes pathogens pathogenic
Garth D Ehrlich, N Luisa Hiller and Fen Ze Hu
Genome Biology 2008, 9:225 24 June 2008

Over 4000 top researchers identifying major advances, including some you may have missed.

   

"In this article, it is shown that chronic social stress (generated by unstable social conditions) in rhesus macaques induces a long-term increase of the innervation by sympathetic noradrenergic fibers of the parenchyma (paracortical area) but not of the blood vessels within axillar lymph nodes...The findings reported in this paper are fascinating and may turn out to be a breakthrough in the field of "psychoneuroimmunology"." by Wilfrid Jänig (Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany).

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"For those interested in what happens in the central circulation with each heartbeat from a pressure standpoint and those who are disappointed with a brachial-blood-pressure-derived answer to this question, this article is for you." by Raymond Townsend (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA).

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BioMed Central
will be exhibiting at:

ISMB
Toronto, Canada
19 - 23 July
Booth #13

ACS Fall
Philadelphia, PA
17 - 21 Aug
Booth #305

ESC
Munich, Germany
30 Aug - 3 Sep
Booth #A2-C521

BioMed Central will be exhibiting at many conferences in 2008.


Xyloglucan cell wall polysaccharide in a pea stem vascular bundle.


Aborted fetal bones cause infertility

After three unsuccessful cycles of IVF in a 32-year old woman with a regular menstrual cycle, normal-sized, normal-shaped uterus without myoma and no pathology of the fallopian tubes, a hysteroscopy identified irregular structures which were confirmed as containing fetal bones.

Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:208

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