Open in Biological News

Argonne to showcase science and technology at community open house

... Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory will open its gates to the community on Saturday, August ... fun for the whole family. The event is free and open to the public. "The open house will be great fun for everyone," said Eric ...

'Canadian excellence' strengthened by extensive adoption of open access

... repository that provides a visible point of open access archiving of intellectual output for all ... system and using BioMed Central's extensive open access knowledge and technology experience, ... one many organizations globally that have adopted open Repository since its ....

Open-access membership: Reporting tool brings convenience and control

... rapid growth of institutional Memberships for open access publications, innovative publisher BioMed ... of the "Online Reporting System" for its open access Prepay and Postpay Membership accounts. ... the administrative costs associated with managing open access publications. The unique online system, ...

Public lecture at UC Riverside to discuss origin and fate of universe

... hour-long talk and question-and-answer session is open to the public. Doors will open at 6:45 p.m., with open seating. "We are lucky to be living at a time ...

Pfizer shows support for open access

... to one of BioMed Central's 190+ peer-reviewed open access journals. By funding open access publication fees in this way, Pfizer aims ... have already put in place policies to ensure open access to the results of the their research ...

Pfizer supports open access publishing for researchers in low-income countries

... an agreement with BioMed Central to launch an open access waiver fund which will support automatic ... from low-income countries. Thanks to the open access waiver fund, researchers in low-income ... can publish research articles in BioMed Central's open access journals without the need to pay a ...

Open access advocate Philip E. Bourne to receive 2009 Benjamin Franklin Award

... efforts as a leading advocate for the free and open dissemination of science and scientific data. ... host collaborations in bioinformatics and promote open access to biological information, the ... recognizes an individual for promoting free and open access to materials and methods used in the life ...

Open access research celebrated

... eminent researchers from around the world, open access advocates and science journalists. The ... that has been made universally accessible by open access publication. The Awards celebrate the best ... research published in any of BioMed Central's open access journals in the last year. The ...

Interventional treatment can be recommended as first-line treatment for 'silent killer'

... rates that are comparable to those reported for open surgical repairand can be recommended as ... rate of secondary interventions compared to open surgery, it was recommended that patients with ... inside a patient's arterywithout the need to cut open the abdomen, as in surgery. Going through skin at ...

Promising 3-year data: Saving limbs with drug-eluting stents

... stents lessened the rate of repeat procedures to open these small arteries, according to results ... radiologist performs a balloon angioplasty to open a clogged blood vessel and then places a ... patency" (length of time the blood vessels stayed open and moved blood flow efficiently); reduced ...

For old or young dialysis patients, AV fistulas remain pure gold

... patientsin length of time the access stayed open and in moving blood flow efficiently. An AV ... is keeping an individual's vascular access graft open for dialysis. AV fistulas remain the gold ... yet they are best for keeping blood vessels open for access so individuals can continue to get ...

EPA to study Puerto Rico waters and marine habitat

... areas around Puerto Rico. The ship will also be open to the public when it docks in San Juan on Feb. ... Navy Frontier Pier in Old San Juan and will be open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. On Feb. ... at the Mayaguez Port Authority Dock and will be open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ...

Demonstration Targets Terrorism

... Marine Corps base. The event, which is also open to allied defense officials, will focus on ... Force Protection Equipment Demonstration is not open to the general public. It is open to defense, homeland security, law enforcement ...

Animal trackers collaborate on new Google Earth for oceans

... which provide an "animal's eye view" of the open ocean seascape. The collaboration between ... to simultaneously tag and track large numbers of open ocean animals, representing a variety of ... a more comprehensive understanding of how the open ocean ecosystems work. We can begin to see ocean ...

Genome Medicine: Bridging the gap between research and clinical practice

... Today, BioMed Central's premier open access medical journal Genome Medicine has ... The launch of Genome Medicine as an open access journal ensures that information on the ... to the effective practice of medicine. The new open access journal Genome Medicine will give ...

Neuroinformatics special issue spotlights the Neuroscience Information Framework

... research data and tools worldwide through an open source, networked environment. The entire issue ... Press is making the entire issue available in open access format to the neuroscience and ... online. All components of the NIF are available open Source to encourage multiple community, ...

Novel publishing approach puts textbook in more hands

... the October 14th celebration of International open Access Day ( http://openaccessday.org/ ), which will highlight prior successes in providing such open access to research journals. "This is an ... Diego already has a history of pioneering such open access to scientific publications. In 1996, the ...

Sentara begins international trial -- open at only 24 US locations

... explore the safety and effectiveness of stents to open airways of patients with advanced emphysema or ... easier. Similar to the stents used to prop open clogged arteries in heart patients, these drug-eluting stents are now holding open new passageways in the lungs. ...

Galloping and breathing at high speed

... cartridges open. When the horse exercises, they open to the maximum extent possible in order to as ... function properly, so it is unable to properly open the cartilage. As a result, the cartilages ... in order to stimulate the muscle and keep it open during exercise. The implant has been developed ...

SAGE-Hindawi launch Journal of Dental Biomechanics

... Journal of Dental Biomechanics (JDB), the second open access title to be launched in the joint ... and implantology "Providing a new open access journal in this growing field ensures the ... today (16th Sept 2008). The journal is an open Access journal and will be available only from ...

Prosthetic vein valve designed to direct blood flow shows promising pre-clinical results

... the valves remain in the proper location, are open and allow blood to pass through the vein. The ... pressures without leaking and the valve had to open with small pressure gradients, even after 500,000 ... showed that the new generation of valves remained open with no clot formation after 120 minutes of blood ...

Complex ocean behavior studied with 'artificial upwelling'

... initial test of the pumps and their effect in the open ocean is the focus of a documentary that is ... blooms are often observed during summer months in open ocean waters, Letelier said. In previous field ... which is why this study is so important. In this open ocean area near Hawaii, for example, ...

Stent grafts: a better way to treat blunt trauma injuries

... support for endovascular repair to replace open surgery as the procedure of choice for repair of ... risk of paraplegia by 75 percent as compared to open surgical repair," he added. Injuries causing ... time and a lower risk of complications than open surgery. Researchers systematically reviewed ...

Consortium develops new method enabling routine targeted gene modification

... that demonstrated how this new method (termed open for Oligomerized Pool ENgineering) can rapidly ... genes and a plant gene. ZFNs made by the new open method which utilizes a new archive of reagents ... begun to explore ways to further simplify the open method so that it can be performed more quickly ...

Researchers catch ion channels in their opening act

... to how these tiny pores in the cell membrane open and close in response to changes in voltage ... can be controlled by turning a knob, channels open or close in response to specific signals. For instance, ion channels that open in response to pressure on the skin regulate our ...

Researchers reveal insights into hidden world of protein folding

... Now Stanford researchers have begun prying open the lid, literally, on the inner workings of ... how the lids at either end of the TRiC chaperonin open and close. "What we found is that this lid ... means that when the lids on the TRiC are twisting open and shut like the aperture on a camera, that ...

Ecological Society of America announces its 93rd Annual Meeting

... Wisconsin. Registration for the meeting is now open to the press. The meeting will include over 3,500 ... environmental biologist Thomas Lovejoy will open the meeting on Sunday, Aug. 3 with his plenary ... and workshops. Numerous field trips, which are open to all meeting registrants, will take ...

Human Genomics and Proteomics

... Proteomics (HGP) is a peer-reviewed international open access journal that will provide a unique forum ... HGP offers a unique opportunity to authors to open up access to their research to the widest ... platform. Human Genomics and Proteomics is an open Access journal: publishing an article requires an ...

Can feces save the species?

... According to Vynne, preservation of open grasslands should be a priority for maned wolf, ... and giant armadillo since these species prefer open areas of park but there is very little open area under protection outside the park. The ...

Detecting dangerous chemicals with lasers, exploring the brain's circuitry with light and more

... of all communications, but quantum mechanics may open up this distant exchange as never before. Quantum ... of gravitational waves, which promises to open up a new astrophysical window to the universe. He ... McEnery Convention Center. The Press Room will be open Sunday, May 4 from 12 p.m. 4 p.m. PDT and ...

Researchers 'see' structure of open nicotinic acetylcholine ion channels

... a new method for probing the interior of the open channel, no studies had been able to infer the structure of the open channel conformation in a living cell. The ... conformational changes that allow the channel to open are quite subtle. The five subunits that make up ...

Oceanic sharks worldwide at serious risk from high-seas fishing, rising demand for shark products

... and being released today.* 'Sharks of the open Ocean' documents just how grave the population status of open ocean sharks has become and finds that current ... the biology, threats, and management outlook for open ocean sharks and rays. The book reveals how ...

Science and technology take center stage this election year

... specific concepts behind their work. Free and open to middle school, high school and college ... Earth Studies, University of Delaware. Free and open to public but registration is required: ... throughout the city. All are free and open to the public. Wednesday, April 16: 8:00 ...

Excellence in open access research celebrated at BioMed Central awards dinner

... eminent researchers from around the world, open access advocates and science journalists. The ... which has been made universally accessible by open access publication. The Awards celebrate the best ... research published in any of BioMed Centrals open access journals in the last year. The Medicine ...

New twist on life's power source

... the net primary productivity attributed to open ocean ecosystems. During normal ... is being removed from the atmosphere by the open ocean photosynthetic organisms than was ... in the vast, nutrient-starved areas of the open ocean, says Joe Berry of the Carnegie ...

Beavers can help ease drought

... increased by up to nine times, the presence of open water. Climate models predict the incidence of ... will likely play an important role in maintaining open water and mitigating the impact, Hood said. The ... has a dramatic effect on the availability of open water in an area. Beaver are helping to keep ...

How baby fish find a home

... of larval and juvenile marine species from open oceans to coral reefs. Previously, tracking how ... larvae naturally influenced by factors in the open ocean. The floating chamber is designed to detect ... after days or weeks in a relatively featureless open ocean landscape. The larval phase is often the ...

Fish farms drive wild salmon populations toward extinction

... salmon that latch onto the fishes skin in the open ocean. The lice are transmitted by a tiny ... gauntlet of fish farms before they reach the open ocean. Salmon farming breaks a natural law, says ... they dont. Salmon bring nutrients from the open ocean back to the coastal ecosystem. Killer ...

Top physics laboratories sign up to open access with PhysMath Central

... PhysMath Central, the open Access publisher for Physics, Mathematics and ... by their investigators in the peer-reviewed open access journal, PMC Physics A. PMC Physics A ... where high-energy physics literature will be open access and article processing costs borne ...

Experimental Biology 2008 meets in San Diego April 5-9

... the meeting itself. All scientific sessions are open to all registered attendees and to members of the ... viewpoint of entirely different disciplines. Also open to all registered attendees and members of the ... How: Experimental Biology 2008 is open to media representing print, electronic, online, ...