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| BioMed Central has recently launched a new Membership type, Shared Support Membership. This pioneering new model has been created in response to extensive communication with the library community and offers a manageable cost-effective option whereby the institution and author split the article processing charge equally.
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| Parasite to prevention, in Edinburgh, UK on 20-22 October 2010, brings together leading researchers and industry representatives to review important recent findings in parasite and vector biology, disease pathophysiology and immunology, disease treatment, control |
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| and prevention. The full programme for this essential event is now available. |
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| BioMed Central supports the goals of the Panton Principles for Open Data in Science but putting them into practice needs to be done in |
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| careful consultation with the scientific community to ensure that researchers still receive appropriate credit for their contributions. We have drafted a position statement on data sharing, open data and licensing, and we invite the wider scientific community to join the discussion to help us define an explicit open data licensing policy. |
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| BioMed Central are extending the option of personal cover pages for the PDF of published articles to more of our journals. The covers, which will be offered at no extra cost to authors published in all BMC-series journals and many of our independent journals, will improve the presentation of printed articles, promote the journal and highlight the authors' work. |
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The Editorial Board of BMC Molecular Biology endorse a new set of essential MIQE-light guidelines for the reporting of quantitative PCR data: "MIQE precis", and provide guidance for the suitability of pure reference gene papers to the journal. |
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| New supplements |
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BMC Proceedings has published the meeting abstracts from the 16th International Charles Heidelberger Symposium on Cancer Research. |
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• As long as we continue to use antibiotics the development of resistance is inevitable. Gerard Wright explains why it is an increasing problem, and what can be done about it.
• Retroviral origins have been correctly assigned to AIDS and a rare T cell leukemia, but doubtfully assigned to many more diseases. Robin Weiss explains the chequered history of so-called RNA rumor viruses in the light of recent conflicting reports on chronic fatigue syndrome – including two negative ones from Groom and colleagues and Switzer and colleagues in Retrovirology.
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Routine IV relocation unnecessary
BMC Medicine 2010, 8:53
Routine removal and relocation of peripheral intravenous (IV) devices is no more effective in the prevention of complications than a single cannula per course of treatment, indicating only clinically-indicated relocation should be used.
This article was recently mentioned in the British Medical Journal's news section.
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Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis for diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetes mellitus
BMC Medical Genomics 2010, 3:33
Evidence that DNA methylation profiling in diabetic nephropathy patients shows significant correlation of DNA methylation with patient age, sex, and time to onset of diabetic nephropathy indicates that active disease processes can be identified in the DNA methylation pattern of peripheral blood. |
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