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Following its December meeting the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) has agreed to mandate open access publication to its researchers.
ESPRC was the only one of the seven Research Councils UK, which hadn't already adopted an open access mandate; the others having announced theirs back in 2006. ESPRC will be publishing further details of its policy in Spring 2009.
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Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice - the third journal to transfer to BioMed Central this year
Editors-in-Chief: Jan Lubiński, Rodney J. Scott and Rolf Sijmons |
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Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice continues to provide a discussion forum for the development of appropriate health care strategies for cancer genetics, and is accepted for tracking by Thomson Reuters (Impact Factor due 2010). |
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Gut Pathogens: supporting advancements in enteric health
Editors-in-Chief: Niyaz Ahmed, Francis Megraud and Leonardo Sechi |
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Gut Pathogens is a new open access journal providing a home for research on all aspects of the biology and pathogenesis of bacterial, parasitic and viral infections of the gut, including their diagnosis and clinical management. |
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| BioSapiens Network review series published in Genome Biology |
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Genome Biology has just published a series of reviews from the BioSapiens Network consortium in which an overview of current and emerging methods and challenges in assessing genomic and protein sequences are discussed. These reviews start |
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BMC Bioinformatics has published Selected papers from the Seventh Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2009), Beijing, China, 13-16 January 2009 and Selected Proceedings of the First Summit in Translational Bioinformatics 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, 10-12 March 2008. |
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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance has published the Abstracts of the 12th Annual SCMR Scientific Sessions - 2009 Orlando, FL, USA, 29 January-1 February 2009. |
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Research has published the Abstracts of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida, Providence, RI, USA, 11-14 June 2008. |
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Can key developments in human prehistory be deduced from the lice we harbor? Retrovirologist Robin Weiss reviews recent speculations based on louse phylogeny and adds his own on the origins of pubic hair, in the context of the history of human infections. The first article in a special issue to celebrate Darwin's 200th birthday.
If you wish to be notified when new articles are published in Journal of Biology, please sign up for article alerts and/or RSS feeds. |
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In-flight medical emergencies poorly documented
Critical Care 2009, 13:R3 (20 January 2009)
Medical emergencies on commercial aircraft are common, but standardized documentation is inadequate and requires further development, whilst available data reveals myocardial infarction to be the most frequent cause of diversion. |
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MRI breast screening not cost-effective
BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:9 (13 January 2009)
Although more sensitive than mammography, the benefits of using MRI to screen young women with a high risk of developing breast cancer do not appear to justify the higher cost when measured in quality-adjusted life-years. |
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Are we HER-ting for innovation in neoadjuvant breast cancer trial design?
Natasa Snoj, Philippe L Bedard, Evandro de Azambuja, Fatima Cardoso, Martine Piccart
Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:201 (16 January 2009)
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Over 4000 top researchers identifying major advances, including some you may have missed.
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Arterial endothelial cells lacking the murine Dll4 gene.
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