ICB launches a new article category – Outstanding Observation

NAR launches new Advance Access publication model

-Five out of 18 primary explants of human carcinomata obtained at operation have been grown progressively for a minimum of one month in thymectomized, x-irradiated mice reconstituted with syngeneic bone marrow and subsequently treated also with anti-thymocyte serum. All the tumours which proliferated were of gastrointestinal origin, growing locally but not metastasizing although direct invasion...

Vascoda launches new search engine technology

Improvements in the interdisciplinary portal for scientific and scholarly information allow for quicker literature search times and a better quality of hits when using vascoda. Vascoda is the interdisciplinary internet portal for scientific and scholarly information and the University Library Centre of the state North Rhine-Westphalia (hbz) is responsible for technical issues, including the app...

New Program to Identify Outstanding New Investigators

Background: The early decades of the 21st century are considered to be the era of human resources for health (HRH). The World Health Report (WHR) 2006 launched the Health Workforce Decade (2006–2015), with high priority given for countries to develop effective workforce policies and strategies. In many countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), particularly those classified as Low and...

JITC launches a new section: commentary and editorials

Editorial Background We are pleased to announce the launch of a new section in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer (JITC), the Commentary/Editorials section edited by Christian Capitini, MD of the University of Wisconsin. With all of the changes occurring in the field of immunotherapy, we felt having a section that features expert analysis and insight into the latest developments would be u...

Pathobiology introduces a new category.