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| BioMed Central will be participating in Science Online London 2010, 3-4 September 2010 - an annual event bringing together science bloggers and publishers, focusing on how the web is "changing the way we conduct, communicate, share, and evaluate research". |
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Managing Director Matthew Cockerill and Associate Journal Publisher Iain Hrynaszkiewicz will be taking part in a panel session on Open Data.
Photos from last year's event can be found on Flickr - including a few of BioMed Central's well travelled mascot Gulliver!
For news on the event visit the Science Online London 2010 blog, or Twitter page. |
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Skeletal Muscle is now accepting submissions!
Editors-in-Chief:
Kevin P. Campbell, David J. Glass and Michael A. Rudnicki
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Skeletal Muscle is a new, open access BioMed Central journal, which publishes articles investigating molecular mechanisms underlying the biology of skeletal muscle, with an emphasis on skeletal muscle maintenance and interaction with non-muscle cell types and regulatory modulators. |
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Globalization & Health Thematic Series now complete
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Age-specific mortality rates from chronic diseases as a whole are higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in virtually all other regions of the world. Globalization and Health has recently completed a new thematic series, Africa's chronic disease burden: local and global perspectives, which offers new empirical evidence on chronic disease risk, morbidity and mortality in selected African countries and among populations of sub-Saharan African descent in Europe. |
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Environmental Health reflects on the first 8 years
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The first published article in Environmental Health, in 2002, was downloaded just 49 times the following month. Currently the number of monthly downloads is around 50,000. In the Editorial Milestones and Impact Factors, the Editors-in-Chief discuss the role of Impact Factors, the development and importance of open access and the impressive increase of article accesses within the journal. |
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Guidelines needed for clinical trial management
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The response to the publication of the updated CONSORT statement earlier this year shows that the need for standardized approaches to the conduct and reporting of randomized controlled trials is widely accepted by the clinical research community. In a review recently published in Trials, Barbara Farrell and colleagues argue the case for adopting a similar approach to clinical trial management. |
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Is there more to the evolution of complexity than regulatory circuits operated by proteins can explain? Miranda Robertson outlines some opposing views.
Jourdain and Martinou explain how a new technique reported in a recent BMC Biology paper for tracking mitochondrial fusion may help to identify therapeutic targets for associated neurodegenerative diseases. |
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If you wish to be notified when new articles are published in BMC Biology, please sign up for article alerts and/or RSS feeds. |
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Genomic insights into early-onset obesity
H¿l¿ne Choquet, David Meyre
Genome Medicine 2010, 2:36 (23 June 2010)
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Exercise strengthens bones in children
BMC Medicine 2010, 8:47
Long-term supervised exercise appears to substantially increase lower extremity bone strength in children, an augmentation not observed in adults, increasing the need for improved studies to more closely examine this phenomenon. |
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Aging of mice and men
Cell Division 2010, 5:16
A newly discovered cellular aging mechanism in humans, based upon Senescence-Associated Heterochromatin Foci (SAHF) is not found in mouse cells, meaning that the SAHF pathway would be a confounding variable in the study of murine models of senescence and cancer. |
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Collective trauma: the Vanni narratives
International Journal of Mental Health Systems 2010, 4:22
A qualitative inquiry into the psychosocial consequences for the Vanni internally displaced persons (IDPs) caught in the final war between state forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in northern Sri Lanka in 2009. |
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