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		Wednesday 02 July 2008

The 2007 Journal Citation Report from Thomson Reuters confirms the excellent performance and increasing quality of BioMed Central's journals.

40 BioMed Central journals now have official Impact Factors. Highlights this year include impressive debut Impact Factors from BMC Biology (5.06), and Molecular Pain (4.13).

BioMed Central's 1000th comment competition
Scientific progress relies on the exchange of ideas, which is why all of BioMed Central's research articles can easily be commented on. Commenting is an important form of scientific communication and to encourage this interaction, BioMed Central is running a competition whereby the author of the 1000th published comment will win a Canon digital camera.		Read the latest comments

New Co-Editor-in-Chief for Globalization and Health

Globalization and Health recently established an affiliation with Emma Pitchforth, Senior Research Fellow at LSE Health, who joins Dr Greg Martin as co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal. The journal and LSE Health hope to work together on their common goal of research into and development of international health policy.

Announcing a new BioMed Central journal
Editors-in-Chief: Kei Cho, Bong-Kiun Kaang, Xiao-Jiang Li, Lin Mei

On Tuesday 17th June BioMed Central launched Molecular Brain, a new open access, independent journal, which encompasses all aspects of the nervous system at the molecular, cellular, and system levels. It is a sister journal to Molecular Pain.

New supplement

Genome Biology has published a supplement of research articles entitled: Quantitative inference of gene function from diverse large-scale datasets, edited by Timothy R Hughes and Frederick P Roth. The articles arose largely from the 'MouseFunc challenge', a critical assessment of mouse gene function predictions.

New from Journal of Biology

A minireview by Gerhard Scholtz in Journal of Biology explains the ingenious experiments of Henrik Glenner and colleagues in a study published by BMC Biology in artificially inducing the adult form of an enigmatic crustacean from a larval stage.

Zoological detective stories: the case of the facetotectan crustacean life cycle
Gerhard Scholtz
Journal of Biology 2008, 7:16

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		Guideline awareness training unsuccessful Trials 2008, 9:39 Various training strategies were found to be ineffective in improving doctors' awareness of hypertension treatment guidelines beyond spontaneous advancement of knowledge, in a five-year follow up of 8325 randomized physicians.

		Cell cycle status in neurodegeneration Genome Biology 2008, 9:R101 Profiling of gene expression changes in mice harbouring the neurodegenerative Wlds mutation shows a strong correlation between changes in cell cycle pathways and altered vulnerability of terminally differentiated neurons.