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Kuan-Teh Jeang M.D., Ph.D

BMC Biology and all at BioMed Central are shocked and saddened by the news that Kuan-Teh Jeang, M.D., Ph.D. died suddenly on the evening of the 27th January 2013. Teh was an invaluable member of our Editorial Board, and we shall greatly miss his robust criticism and his energy and attack in the support of the journal. A short appreciation can be found in the blog on the BioMed Central portal. We should like to offer our sincere condolences to his family, friends and colleagues.

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Selected articles

Review & comment

Traversing the landscape of antibiotic resistance

Martijn Schenk, J Arjan de Visser
Commenting on research in BMC Evolutionary Biology, Arjan de Visser and Martijn Schenk discuss how two genetic properties, pleiotropy and epistasis, might help us to predict the evolution of antibiotic resistance.
Immunological puzzles

Gillian Griffiths
Gillian Griffiths, in her ‘Open questions’ contribution for BMC Biology, pinpoints some critical missing links in the cell-biological specializations of immune cells
Why does a chromosome look like a chromosome?

Frank Uhlmann
In his contribution to the ‘Open questions’ anniversary collection for BMC Biology, Frank Uhlmann poses the unsolved problem of chromosome packaging
Questions in search of answers

Miranda Robertson
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, BMC Biology asked its Editorial Board members to write a paragraph or two on their favorite open questions in biology, and this month it publishes the first contributions, on topics from the challenges of proteomics to the mechanisms of apoptosis.

Research

Notch2 is required in somatic cells for breakdown of ovarian germ-cell nests and formation of primordial follicles

Jingxia Xu, Thomas Gridley
Multi-channel acoustic recording and automated analysis of Drosophila courtship songs

Benjamin Arthur, Tomoko Sunayama-Morita, Philip Coen, Mala Murthy, David Stern
Shift happens: trailing edge contraction associated with recent warming trends threatens a distinct genetic lineage in the marine macroalga Fucus vesiculosus

Katy Nicastro, Gerardo Zardi, Sara Teixeira, Joao Neiva, Ester Serrao, Gareth Pearson
Enhanced 5-methylcytosine detection in single-molecule, real-time sequencing via Tet1 oxidation

Tyson Clark, Xingyu Lu, Khai Luong, Qing Dai, Matthew Boitano, Stephen Turner, Chuan He, Jonas Korlach
The songbird syrinx morphome: a three-dimensional, high-resolution, interactive morphological map of the zebra finch vocal organ

Daniel Düring, Alexander Ziegler, Christopher Thompson, Andreas Ziegler, Cornelius Faber, Johannes Müller, Constance Scharff, Coen Elemans
Evolution of an adaptive behavior and its sensory receptors promotes eye regression in blind cavefish

Masato Yoshizawa, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Kelly O'Quin, William Jeffery

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Latest articles from BMC Biology

Notch2 is required in somatic cells for breakdown of ovarian germ-cell nests and formation of primordial follicles

Xu J and Gridley T

BMC Biology 2013, 11:13

MST1, a key player, in enhancing fast skeletal muscle atrophy

Wei B, Dui W, Liu D, Xing Y, Yuan Z and Ji G

BMC Biology 2013, 11:12

Multi-channel acoustic recording and automated analysis of Drosophila courtship songs

Arthur BJ, Sunayama-Morita T, Coen P, Murthy M and Stern DL

BMC Biology 2013, 11:11

Open questions: missing pieces from the immunological jigsaw puzzle

Griffiths GM

BMC Biology 2013, 11:10

Latest articles from BMC Medicine

Sodium vanadate combined with L-ascorbic acid delays disease progression, enhances motor performance, and ameliorates muscle atrophy and weakness in mice with spinal muscular atrophy

Liu HC, Ting CH, Wen HL, Tsai LK, Hsieh-Li HM, Li H and Lin-Chao S

BMC Medicine 2013, 11:38

The effects of apoptosis vulnerability markers on the myocardium in depression after myocardial infarction

Wang Y, Liu X, Zhang D, Chen J, Liu S and Berk M

BMC Medicine 2013, 11:32

The sweet and sour of serological glycoprotein tumor biomarker quantification

Kuzmanov U, Kosanam H and Diamandis EP

BMC Medicine 2013, 11:31

Fat dads must not be blamed for their children's health problems

Moore GE and Stanier P

BMC Medicine 2013, 11:30

Topical Q&As

Extinctions - whose fault?
Robert M May
What is regeneration?
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Is sugar toxic?
Luc Tappy

Article collections

Cell geometry
Collection published: 14 December 2012
Metabolism, diet and disease
Collection published: 21 May 2012
Ubiquitin signals and beyond
Collection published: 15 March 2012

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From the blog

08 February 2013: Seduction songs, muscular malaise and shifting seaweed: BMC Biology’s January research round-up

04 February 2013: Singing flies and DIY

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