The Editors of Retrovirology are delighted to announce the winner of the 2015 KT Jeang Retrovirology prize is Paul Bieniasz. Started in 2005, it is awarded to a colleague who has made outstanding contributions to the field of retrovirology and is in the middle of their career. Read about the creation of the prize and… Read more »
Biology Week is upon us and we want to test your knowledge of a very important biological topic. Antimicrobial resistance is a big problem and will continue to pose difficulties to healthcare officials in the future. It is therefore imperative for sustained research and monitoring to keep the spread of antimicrobial resistance under control and to find new antimicrobial agents. How much do you know about research in this field?
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Editor-in-Chief of Cancer Cell International reveals his thoughts on cancer research, including what led him to specialize in this subject area, how the technology has advanced and what he thinks it will take to eradicate cancer in the future.
Understanding how muscles work is important, but dissecting muscle fibers from humans is difficult, could an alternative option be myotubes? Research published in Skeletal Muscle investigates this, and here Jennifer Levy explains more.
Dr. Hiroshi Nishiura, Editor-in-Chief of Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, discusses what the current biggest epidemics are, where the next big epidemic will come from and how we will cope with it and if we will be able to successfully predict and prevent epidemics in the future.
The 17th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Human Virology – Baltimore has been again a relevant meeting on HIV/AIDS and the related opportunistic cancers driven by pathogens. Moreover, for the first time a short section has been dedicated also to the ebola virus research and the recent outbreak in West Africa