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Wednesday 18 November 2009
 
41 Nobel Laureates and scientists collaborated to show their support for FRRPA, by lobbying congress through an open letter. The legislation seeks to enhance access to federally funded published research articles, ensuring they are made available in an online repository no later than 6 months after publication.
 


EvoDevo, a new journal on evolutionary developmental biology, now open for submissions!

Editors-in-Chief: Mark Q Martindale and Max Telford
EvoDevo
  EvoDevo is a new open access BioMed Central journal which focuses on a broad range of topics associated with the translation of genotype to phenotype in a phylogenetic context.

 

New supplements
 
BMC Health Services Research   BMC Health Services Research has published the abstracts - Patient Classification Systems International: 2009 Case Mix Conference Fukuoka, Japan. 11-14 November 2009.
   
BMC Bioinformatics   BMC Bioinformatics has published a collection of articles from Biodiversity Informatics.
   
BMC Pharmacology   BMC Pharmacology has published the abstracts from the 15th Scientific Symposium of the Austrian Pharmacological Society (APHAR). Graz, Austria. 19-21 November 2009.
   
Malaria Journal   Malaria Journal has published a collection of reviews: Development of the sterile insect technique for African malaria vectors.

 New from Journal of Biology
 
The development of the checkpoint concept was a landmark in the understanding of cell cycle control, but Alexey Khodjakov and Conly Rieder argue that it is widely misunderstood, to the detriment of progress in cell cycle research.

The nature of cell-cycle checkpoints: facts and fallacies   Opinion
The nature of cell-cycle checkpoints: facts and fallacies
Alexey Khodjakov and Conly L Rieder
Journal of Biology 2009, 8:88

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Anti-ulcer drug protects against lung damage   Anti-ulcer drug protects against lung damage
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2009, 9:45
Oral administration of geranylgeranylacetone, an anti-ulcer drug that induces heat shock protein 70, exerts a protective effect against lung injury in a drug-induced lung fibrosis mouse model by suppressing the fibrotic reaction.
 
Selective eradication of breast cancer cells   Selective eradication of breast cancer cells
Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:R78
Phenanthridine derived polyADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors originally designed to protect cells from cell-death under stress conditions efficiently eradicate breast cancer cells without impairing normal proliferating or non-proliferating cells.

Why are women predisposed to autoimmune rheumatic diseases?
Jacqueline E Oliver, Alan J Silman
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2009, 11:252 (26 October 2009)

 
 


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Bourgeois queens and high stakes games in the ant Aphaenogaster senilis
Bourgeois queens and high stakes games in the ant Aphaenogaster senilis


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