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MLA in Chicago, USA 16 - 21 May 2008
BioMed Central will be exhibiting at booth #541.

New supplements from BMC Bioinformatics
Proceedings of the 10th Bio-Ontologies Special Interest Group Workshop 2007. Ten years past and looking to the future. Vienna, Austria. 20 July 2007. A semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Network Tools and Applications in Biology (NETTAB 2007). Pisa, Italy, 12-15 June 2007. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine (LBM) 2007. Singapore, 6-7 December 2007.

Launch of BMC Medical Physics
BMC Medical Physics provides an excellent open access venue to allow physicians and physicists to discuss and disseminate their clinical and technical advances in the field of medical physics.

"This paper demonstrates that subcellular localization of cationic, cell-penetrating peptides is a function of their physical properties, so that mitochondrial vs. nuclear localization is dependent on the LogD at 7.4 and net positive charge." See the full evaluation of this paper by Jefferson Tilley (Hoffmann-La Roche Inc, USA) for Faculty of 1000 Biology.

"The results of this study have tremendous practical clinical implications … [It] suggests that decreased CBF due to hypertension may predispose to a vulnerable state where abnormal deposit of amyloid leads to Alzheimer’s disease." See the full evaluation of this paper by Conrado Estol (Research Center, Argentina) for Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

Featured articles

Cryptic mouse lemur species that look the same and share habitat nevertheless manage to find appropriate mates in the dark by recognizing male advertisement calls of their own species, thus preserving isolation of the two species.

Young Europeans are using alcohol to promote sexual encounters and drugs to enhance their sexual experiences, but this is leading to increased risk taking behavior and underage sex, particularly among girls.

Women are reluctant to disclose their sexual histories as part of a chlamydia screening program and prefer an inclusive age-based approach to screening rather than targeted screening based on risk factors.

Motivational abnormalities, measured using reward-based reaction times, are present in first-episode psychosis and could be associated with dopamine dysfunction rather than underlying cognitive impairment or the effects of antipsychotic medication.

A new model which can estimate the growth rate of breast cancer, as well as the proportion of tumors detected at screening, shows slower growth rates with increasing age.

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