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On 21-23 September, BioMed Central is holding "FRONTIERS OF RETROVIROLOGY: Complex retroviruses, retroelements and their hosts" in Montpellier, France.
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Frontiers of Retrovirology will bring together leading human retrovirus researchers to review current progress and to map future challenges in this exciting and fast-moving field.
All participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. A significant number of talks will also be selected from registrants.
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Canadian Cancer Society Research Institutes adopts OA mandate
In February this year the Canadian Cancer Society integrated the operations of the National Cancer Institute of Canada to establish the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute. The newly formed institute now has an open access policy. Effective July 2009, all researchers supported by the Canadian Cancer Society are required to make their published results freely available within six months of publication.
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 New from Journal of Biology |
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Virginia Walbot offers a protocol for training graduate students and postdocs in responsible peer review; and Ingo Braasch and Walter Salzburger discuss an article published in BMC Evolutionary Biology that suggests how differential evolution of the duplicated vitellogenin yolk protein genes in fish allowed the development of crucial new spawning strategies.
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Global Health Initiatives - not all good
Human Resources for Health 2009, 7:8
Global Health Initiatives need to be aware of the potentially negative consequences of their funding programmes on human resources for health and need new strategies to ensure sustainability of the programmes they support and overall provision of health care services. |
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Markers for pediatric bipolar disorder
BMC Psychiatry 2009, 9:2
Several candidate genes for pediatric bipolar disorder, including the val66met marker in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene are found to have no association with the condition, suggesting the association magnitude is smaller than previously suggested. |
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Transforming growth factor-ß in breast cancer: too much, too late
Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff, Rosemary J Akhurst
Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:202 (26 February 2009)
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Impaired Notch fucosylation in early mouse development.
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