Since its conception in 1940 the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has been chairing an annual conference, which has become one of the key international forums for sharing knowledge and disseminating new research into Diabetes mellitus. June 2016 saw the ADA’s 76th Scientific Sessions, this year held in New Orleans, USA. More than 15,000 clinicians, health care professionals and scientists in...

The presence of tumor cells in lymph nodes (LNs) is a sign that metastatic spread of cancer has occurred, and it also signals poor prognosis for patients with cancer. However, it is uncertain whether the lymphatic vasculature is a route for the further dissemination of tumor cells to distant organs or whether that primarily occurs through direct entry of tumor cells into blood vessels. Until re...

Evolution 2014—Meeting Report Tal Dagan*, Eric Bapteste, James O. McInerney, and William F. Martin Institute of Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany UMR CNRS 7138 Systématique, Adaptation, Evolution, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France Department of Biology, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine Uni...

On 15–19 July 2013 the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and the Orthodox Academy of Crete, in Kolymbari, Chania, Greece, hosted the 6th conference on the Molecular and Population Biology of Mosquitoes and Other Disease Vectors. These vectors transmit serious parasitic and viral diseases, the most devastating of which are malaria and dengue, which together cause over 300 million ca...

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) organizes an annual meeting for Drosophila researchers from all over the world who work on overlapping or closely related fields, for interaction and exchange of ideas. The 47th Annual Drosophila Research Conference was organized at Houston, Texas, USA by Hugo J. Bellen, Ron Davis, Graeme Mardon (Baylor College of Medicine) and Georg Halder (M.D. Anderson C...

There is considerable interest in the physiology and pathology, as well as the cellular and molecular biology, of bone marrow adipose tissue (BMAT). Because bone marrow adiposity is linked not only to systemic energy metabolism, but also to both bone marrow and musculoskeletal disorders, this biologic compartment has become of major interest to investigators from diverse disciplines. Bone marro...

The promise of cancer immunotherapy was validated officially in March 2011 when the FDA approved Yervoy (ipilimumab; Bristol-Myers Squibb) for the treatment of unresectable ormetastatic melanoma. The approval was based on results of a randomized, double-blind clinical trial establishing that ipilimumab (a humanized antiCTLA-4 monoclonal antibody) treatment extended the overall survival of patie...