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Are we training pit bulls to review our manuscripts?
Virginia Walbot Journal of Biology 2009, 8:24 (9 March 2009)
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Virginia Walbot accepts some of the blame for remorselessly negative reviewers, and suggests a training program for graduate students and post docs that will deliver a fairer assessment of manuscripts.
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Music, memory and emotion
Lutz Jäncke Journal of Biology 2008, 7:21 (8 August 2008)
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Open access to the scientific journal literature
Peter Suber Journal of Biology 2002, 1:3 (18 June 2002)
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What are journals for?
Miranda Robertson Journal of Biology 2009, 8:1 (27 January 2009)
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Journal of Biology launches a re-review opt-out experiment in response to widespread dissatisfaction with peer review, and publishes the first of two new regular features - a full review on the ribosome and a question-and-answer feature on systems biology.
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Top dogs: wolf domestication and wealth
Carlos A Driscoll, David W Macdonald Journal of Biology 2010, 9:10 (24 February 2010)
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Commenting on a phylogeographic analysis in BMC Biology that supports a Middle Eastern origin of small dogs, Driscoll and Macdonald speculate on the implications of wolf domestication and size reduction occurring at a time of transition between hunter-gatherer and sedentary societies.
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Growth control of the eukaryote cell: a systems biology study in yeast
Juan I Castrillo, Leo A Zeef, David C Hoyle, Nianshu Zhang, Andrew Hayes, David CJ Gardner, Michael J Cornell, June Petty, Luke Hakes, Leanne Wardleworth, Bharat Rash, Marie Brown, Warwick B Dunn, David Broadhurst, Kerry O'Donoghue, Svenja S Hester, Tom PJ Dunkley, Sarah R Hart, Neil Swainston, Peter Li, Simon J Gaskell, Norman W Paton, Kathryn S Lilley, Douglas B Kell, Stephen G Oliver Journal of Biology 2007, 6:4 (30 April 2007)
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The first comprehensive systems biology study on growth rate control in yeast integrates information from the transcriptome, proteome and metabolome to reveal how cell growth underlies key cellular and development processes.
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Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Teresa Reguly, Ashton Breitkreutz, Lorrie Boucher, Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz, Gary C Hon, Chad L Myers, Ainslie Parsons, Helena Friesen, Rose Oughtred, Amy Tong, Chris Stark, Yuen Ho, David Botstein, Brenda Andrews, Charles Boone, Olga G Troyanskya, Trey Ideker, Kara Dolinski, Nizar N Batada, Mike Tyers Journal of Biology 2006, 5:11 (8 June 2006)
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A new literature-based yeast database documents over 33,000 biological interactions, manually curated from the primary literature, and provides an invaluable resource to benchmark high-throughput methods in the study of complex networks.
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Conservation of core gene expression in vertebrate tissues
Esther T Chan, Gerald T Quon, Gordon Chua, Tomas Babak, Miles Trochesset, Ralph A Zirngibl, Jane Aubin, Michael JH Ratcliffe, Andrew Wilde, Michael Brudno, Quaid D Morris, Timothy R Hughes Journal of Biology 2009, 8:33 (16 April 2009)
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High conservation of tissue-specific expression is found across vertebrates yet there is a lack of conservation in common regulatory sequences/signatures.
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Systemic 5-fluorouracil treatment causes a syndrome of delayed myelin destruction in the central nervous system
Ruolan Han, Yin M Yang, Joerg Dietrich, Anne Luebke, Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Mark Noble Journal of Biology 2008, 7:12 (22 April 2008)
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The chemotherapy drug, 5-fluorouracil, causes delayed degeneration in the central nervous system of animals, a newly identified type of damage that helps explain the cognitive defects or `chemobrain` symptoms associated with cancer treatment.
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The mathematics of sexual attraction
José A Feijó Journal of Biology 2010, 9:18 (29 March 2010)
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Dynamic rerouting of the carbohydrate flux is key to counteracting oxidative stress
Markus Ralser, Mirjam M Wamelink, Axel Kowald, Birgit Gerisch, Gino Heeren, Eduard A Struys, Edda Klipp, Cornelis Jakobs, Michael Breitenbach, Hans Lehrach, Sylvia Krobitsch Journal of Biology 2007, 6:10 (21 December 2007)
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Yeast and C. elegans share a conserved cellular mechanism that counteracts the fatal consequences of oxidative stress by enabling the redirection of metabolic flux from glycolysis to the pentose phosphate pathway.
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The Drosophila Forkhead transcription factor FOXO mediates the reduction in cell number associated with reduced insulin signaling
Martin A Jünger, Felix Rintelen, Hugo Stocker, Jonathan D Wasserman, Mátyás Végh, Thomas Radimerski, Michael E Greenberg, Ernst Hafen Journal of Biology 2003, 2:20 (7 August 2003)
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Endothelial adherens junctions and the actin cytoskeleton: an 'infinity net'?
Maria Grazia Lampugnani Journal of Biology 2010, 9:16 (8 April 2010)
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Complexes between the LKB1 tumor suppressor, STRADα/β and MO25α/β are upstream kinases in the AMP-activated protein kinase cascade
Simon A Hawley, Jérôme Boudeau, Jennifer L Reid, Kirsty J Mustard, Lina Udd, Tomi P Mäkelä, Dario R Alessi, D Grahame Hardie Journal of Biology 2003, 2:28 (24 September 2003)
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The origin and evolution of lactation
Anthony V Capuco, R Michael Akers Journal of Biology 2009, 8:37 (24 April 2009)
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Capuco and Akers review the biology of lactation and discuss a new report in Genome Biology that compares the bovine genome with six other mammalian genomes to study how lactation and its regulation evolved.
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High-resolution quantitative imaging of mammalian and bacterial cells using stable isotope mass spectrometry
Claude Lechene, Francois Hillion, Greg McMahon, Douglas Benson, Alan M Kleinfeld, J Patrick Kampf, Daniel Distel, Yvette Luyten, Joseph Bonventre, Dirk Hentschel, Kwon Park, Susumu Ito, Martin Schwartz, Gilles Benichou, Georges Slodzian Journal of Biology 2006, 5:20 (5 October 2006)
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For the first time it is possible to image and quantify at nanometer resolution biological samples labeled with stable isotopes, using multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry, applicable to all fields of biomedical research.
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Generalized immune activation as a direct result of activated CD4+ T cell killing
Rute Marques, Adam Williams, Urszula Eksmond, Andy Wullaert, Nigel Killeen, Manolis Pasparakis, Dimitris Kioussis, George Kassiotis Journal of Biology 2009, 8:93 (27 November 2009)
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HIV causes immunodeficiency by deleting activated CD4 T lymphocytes, but paradoxically also causes general immune activation. Kassiotis and colleagues have mimicked this effect by using genetic engineering to delete activated T cells in mice, and show that in the mice it is due to loss of regulatory T cells.
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Parasite immunomodulation and polymorphisms of the immune system
Rick M Maizels Journal of Biology 2009, 8:62 (5 August 2009)
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Rick Maizels discusses a recent paper in BMC Biology on wild mammals that lend support to the hygiene hypothesis, and explains why genetic variants that reduce parasite-induced immunosuppression are associated with an increase in allergic reactions.
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The water flea Daphnia - a 'new' model system for ecology and evolution?
Angelika Stollewerk Journal of Biology 2010, 9:21 (13 January 2010)
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CNS progenitor cells and oligodendrocytes are targets of chemotherapeutic agents in vitro and in vivo
Joerg Dietrich, Ruolan Han, Yin Yang, Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Mark Noble Journal of Biology 2006, 5:22 (30 November 2006)
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Chemotherapeutic agents are more toxic to cells of the central nervous system than to cancer cells when administered to mice and cultured cells, providing an explanation for adverse neurological effects of systemic chemotherapy.
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Q&A: Epistasis
Frederick P Roth, Howard D Lipshitz, Brenda J Andrews Journal of Biology 2009, 8:35 (22 May 2009)
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The term epistasis has at least three meanings in biology. Brenda Andrews and colleagues explain in Q&A format how in its classical sense, epistasis allows biological pathways to be defined.
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Apes, lice and prehistory
Robin A Weiss Journal of Biology 2009, 8:20 (10 February 2009)
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In a special issue to celebrate the bicentennial of Darwin's birth, Robin Weiss reviews recent speculations on human prehistory based on louse phylogeny, and adds his own on the origins of pubic hair.
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Acoel and platyhelminth models for stem-cell research
Alexandra E Bely, James M Sikes Journal of Biology 2010, 9:14 (16 February 2010)
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The bodies of platyhelminth and acoel worms are continually renewed from large pools of somatic stem cells. Bely and Sikes discuss their consequent attractiveness for stem cell research, and how recent studies, including one in BMC Developmental Biology, reveal aspects of the cellular dynamics and molecular basis of stem-cell function in these animals.
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Madm (Mlf1 adapter molecule) cooperates with Bunched A to promote growth in Drosophila
Silvia Gluderer, Erich Brunner, Markus Germann, Virginija Jovaisaite, Changqing Li, Cyrill A Rentsch, Ernst Hafen, Hugo Stocker Journal of Biology 2010, 9:9 (11 February 2010)
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Stocker and colleagues identify and analyze a growth-promoting complex in Drosophila, formed between the putative transcription factor BunA, for which human homologs can functionally substitute, and the adaptor protein Madm.
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The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes: an emerging model in prokaryotic transcriptomics
Pascale Cossart, Cristel Archambaud Journal of Biology 2009, 8:107 (30 December 2009)
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Cossart and Archambaud discuss the implications of the outcome of deep RNA sequencing used to probe the virulence toolkit of Listeria monocytogenes, reported in a recent paper in BMC Genomics.
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