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Clinical Proteomics launches with BioMed Central |
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BioMed Central has launched Clinical Proteomics, with Dr Daniel Chan as Editor-in-Chief. Clinical Proteomics covers a wide range of topics within the clinical proteomics field, including translational proteomics, and will place special emphasis on the applications of proteomics technology to clinical investigations. To find out more, visit the website. |
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Splicing and survival – linked in colorectal cancer? |
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New research by Rolf I. Skotheim and colleagues, recently published in Genome Medicine, provides evidence for the occurrence of aberrant splicing events that are associated with poor patient survival in colorectal cancer. |
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Avoiding embarrassment by preventing the exposure of health data |
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Just imagine how you'd feel if the private details of your health were accidentally released on the Internet and your employer was able to see the medication you've taken for mental health reasons or for sexually transmitted diseases. Khaled El Emam reviews one approach to reducing this risk. |
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Travelers' malaria – a new series from Malaria Journal |
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Malaria Journal has launched an exciting new series on travelers' malaria, a field that is ever evolving. The series provides an ideal forum for discussing diagnosis, treatment and surveillance of malaria associated with travelling. |
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Arthritis Research & Therapy has published a collection of reviews on “The evolution of anti-TNF therapy in rheumatic disease: experience, insights and advances” edited by Joachim Kalden. |
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BMC Proceedings has published the selected proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA'10). |
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BMC Public Health has published the proceedings from “What is disability? UN convention on the rights of persons with disability, eligibility criteria and the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health”. |
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Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice has published the abstracts from the Annual Conference on Hereditary Cancers 2009. |
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Retrovirology has published the meeting abstracts from the 15th International Conference on Human Retroviruses: HTLV and Related Viruses. |
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BMC Proceedings has published the proceedings from the International Symposium on Animal Genomics for Animal Health (AGAH 2010). |
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Three articles have been published from the cross-journal thematic series “Focus on Stem Cells”:
•Arthur Lander reflects on how current assumptions that stem cells divide asymmetrically and are programmed to produce the right differentiated cell types at the right times may fail to acknowledge a fundamental contribution of stem cell individuality.
•Do stem cells play dice? Stem cell populations are small and therefore clonal expansion of mutant cells is susceptible to stochastic effects. Dingli and Pacheco propose that such effects may result in the unfavorable acquisition of mutations causing potentially lethal disease and occasionally, stochastic extinction could explain the disappearance of mutant clones.
•Lee Rubin and Kelly Haston survey recent research on the contribution of pluripotent cells to modeling disease with the aim of improving the efficiency of drug discovery and prediction of unexpected drug toxicities.
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Phase behaviour of non-bilayer lipids
BMC Biophysics 2011, 4:11
The thermotropic phase behavior and molecular interactions of the two biologically important non-bilayer lipids, egg phosphatidylethanolamine (EPE) and monogalactosyldiacylglycerol (MGDG) have been comprehensively characterized by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry. |
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Dehydroepiandrosterone improves diminished ovarian reserve
Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2011,
9:67
Treating diminished ovarian reserve with dehydroepiandrosterone appears to improve pregnancy chances, not only by increasing egg yield, but by also benefitting age-dependent ovarian environments and improving embryo quality. |
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Heavy infection by Thelazia callipaeda nematodes (parasitic worms) in the conjunctiva of a dog from Italy
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