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The NIHR has agreed a membership arrangement with BioMed Central to support publication of research articles in the publisher's open access journals. Under the terms of the NIHR's Supporter Membership arrangement, all NHS researchers supported by the NIHR and its partners will benefit from a 15% discount on publication fees when publishing in any of BioMed Central's 200 peer-reviewed open access journals. |
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Our editors Matt, Joe, Ruth and Helen, recently returned from their Cycle Chile adventure to raise money for Computer Aid. The group covered 430km over six days witnessing breathtaking views from the foothills of the Andes to Chile's Pacific coast. You can find photos of their journey on our Facebook page.
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high quality submissions from across the medical community. Through their innovative approach, both these journals make each individual patient's case a valuable addition to medical literature.
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How should governments respond to the new era of medical genomics? |
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Two new articles in Genome Medicine discuss US healthcare reform and the recent UK House of Lords report on genomic medicine, and examine their potential consequences for genomic research and for medical care. |
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In June 2009, BMC Medicine received its first "official" Impact Factor from Thomson Reuters of 3.28. To commemorate this |
| landmark occasion, the BMC Medicine editorial team outline their vision and aims for the journal, for the future in an editorial published this week. |
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| Biology Direct publishes thematic series |
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In this Darwin anniversary year Biology Direct has published the first articles in a thematic series covering today's understanding of evolution at all levels. Further articles will be added to the series in due course, and proposals are welcome for consideration. |
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| Stem Cell gateway launched |
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BioMed Central has recently launched the Stem Cell Gateway, providing easy access to all the latest stem cell related research published across BioMed Central's journals, as well as profiles of authors in the field and an interactive map to enable you to |
| discover wider relationships and find experts in your area. The Gateway complements our new Stem Cell Research & Therapy journal, which is now accepting submissions. |
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BMC Bioinformatics has published the Proceedings of the Sixth Annual MCBIOS Conference. Transformational Bioinformatics: Delivering Value from Genomes, Starkville, MS, USA. 20-21 February 2009, Proceedings of Bioinformatics Methods for Biomedical Complex System Applications, Verenna, Italy, 19-21 May 2008 and Highlights from the Fifth International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, 27 June 2009. |
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BMC International Health and Human Rights has published a collection of Articles - The fallacy of coverage: uncovering disparities to improve immunization rates through evidence. The Canadian International Immunization Initiative Phase 2 (CIII2) Operational Research Grants. |
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Malaria Journal has published a collection of Reviews: Coartem®: reviewing the impact on the malaria landscape.
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Dagmar Ringe and Gregory Petsko explain in a Q&A how small molecules that stabilize mutant proteins with high specificity can be used to treat protein misfolding and metabolic diseases; and in a new series called Ockham's broom, Bruce Mayer and colleagues argue that intracellular signaling complexes are not machines but complexes that form and dissolve in myriad combinations that can be understood only with modern imaging and mathematical tools.
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Activity of novel cancer drug elucidated
Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:R74
The novel proteasome inhibitor, BU-32, exhibits strong cytotoxic and growth inhibitory effects in cultured cell lines and xenografts, pointing to its potential use as a
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Passive immunization for chicken disease
BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9:79
Chickens are protected from developing the economically-important illness coccidiosis by eating pea seeds expressing antibodies against the parasite Eimeria, showing passive immunization to be a cost-effective method of controlling this infectious disease. |
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The netrin protein family
Sathyanath Rajasekharan and Timothy E Kennedy
Genome Biology 2009, 10:239 (29 September 2009)
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Frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated disease
protein TDP-43 promotes dendritic branching
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