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Winners of our 6th Annual Research Awards were celebrated on the 17th May at the Emirates Stadium, London, UK, honoring the outstanding research that has been made available with open access publishing. Over 100 guests attended the ceremony including leading researchers, shortlisted authors and science journalists from around the world.
The winners were selected by internationally renowned judges from over 230 BioMed Central journals that together contain more than 18,000 peer-reviewed open access articles from the last 12 months.
The overall winner of the prestigious BioMed Central Research Award was the article 'A whole genome screen for HIV restriction factors' Retrovirology 2011, 8:94, by Professor Áine McKnight and team.
Other awards included the Open Data Award (sponsored by LabArchives), Case Report of the Year, Open Access Advocate/Institution of the Year and Editor of the Year awards. For more information about the winners of these awards please visit our blog. |
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| A "We the People" White House petition went live on Sunday 20th May to help increase open access within US Federally Funded Research. Expanding access would speed up the research process and increase the return on our investment in scientific research. It is hoped that the petition will demonstrate the wide public support of open access scientific research. If it reaches 25,000 signatures within 30 days the White House have to make a formal response, so show your support and sign the petition! |
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| The Editors at Edanz have pooled their expertise to create the BioMed Central author academy, a free online learning resource for authors on writing and publishing in scientific journals. As well as advice on how to structure and write a good research article, the author academy includes help on choosing a target journal and publication ethics. The academy is aimed at authors who are less experienced in writing for English-language international journals, to help increase the chance of successful publication. By working with authors in this way, we also aim to lessen the burden on scientific Editors and peer reviewers, by improving the quality of manuscripts sent out for peer review. |
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Winners announced for the 2011 Ming K Jeang Award for Excellence in Cell & Bioscience |
| Two research groups led by Dr TC Wu of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and Dr P Liu of the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, have been awarded for their outstanding research published in Cell & Bioscience. |
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Call for papers on transgenic plants for biofuels |
| Biotechnology for Biofuels welcomes submissions to a special thematic series on transgenic plants for enhanced biofuel production. Submission of original research and methodology articles, on genetic modification of plants to improve biofuels traits including downstream processing and bio-production, will be encouraged until 1st November 2012. |
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An interactive introduction to metabolomics |
| What is metabolomics and how is it being used to predict and manage disease? That's the subject of Genome Medicine and BioMed Central's first interactive graphic, which accompanies Genome Medicine's series on Metabolomics of Disease. |
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LAM for diagnosis of HIV-associated TB |
| Stephen Lawn, Section Editor for BMC Infectious Diseases, reviews recent advances in lipoarabinomannan (LAM) detection in urine for rapid point-of-care diagnosis of HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB), which would enable immediate initiation of TB treatment in patients with the highest mortality risk. |
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Cancer bioinformatics: Bioinformatic methods, network biomarkers and precision medicine |
High throughput methods for understanding individual genomes are brought to the clinic in a new collaborative series involving BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Cancer, BMC Medicine, Genome Medicine and Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics: Cancer bioinformatics: bioinformatic methods, network biomarkers and precision medicine.
Submissions are welcomed until 1st November 2012. |
 Weight loss interventions in pregnancy
Evidence from a systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that lifestyle intervention during pregnancy can reduce the risk of gestational diabetes and weight gain in obese women, highlighting the importance of intervention at this crucial time. |
Tropical disease: targeting nutrition
Neglected tropical diseases are prevalent in malnourished populations and are exacerbated by undernutrition; Andrew Hall and colleagues propose that the efficacy of neglected tropical diseases control programs can be increased by including nutritional interventions. |
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Research article
Lifestyle interventions for overweight and obese pregnant women to improve pregnancy outcome: systematic review and meta-analysis
Eugene Oteng-Ntim, Rajesh Varma, Helen Crocker, Lucilla Poston, Pat Doyle
BMC Medicine 2012, 10:47 |
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Opinion
The role of nutrition in integrated programs to control neglected tropical diseases
Andrew Hall, Yaobi Zhang, Chad MacArthur, Shawn Baker
BMC Medicine 2012, 10:41 |
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Malaria resurgence threatens?
Malaria Journal 2012, 11:122
There is a need for practical solutions to the operational and financial threats facing malaria elimination programmes if we are to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, which saw the resurgence of malaria in disease free areas. |
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Hybrid viral genome discovered in extreme environment
Biology Direct 2012, 7:13
The discovery of a previously unknown viral genome, the apparent result of a recombination event between unrelated RNA and DNA viruses, has implications for theories of viral evolution. |
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Proteomic characterization of rat Schwann cells
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