Call for Manuscripts Issue 3

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Systems Biology

The control community has made significant contributions to the field of systems biology, bringing rigorous tools from dynamic systems, feedback, modeling and robustness analysis. These contributions range from elegant theories to explain principles of regulation, to more technological developments that advance the state of treatments and therapies. The field has reached a certain level of matu...

Call for manuscripts: "Towards a scaling-up of training and education for health workers"

The World Health Report 2006, Working together for health, recognized the centrality of the health workforce for the effective operation of country health systems and outlined proposals to tackle a global shortage of 4.3 million health workers. There is increasing evidence that that this shortage is interfering with efforts to achieve international development goals, including those contained i...

Research highlights for issue 3

Whether evolution is predictable becomes a key question when deciding how to translate and apply evolutionary theory to solve real-world problems. Mutations arise by chance, and therefore, it seems fair to question if we can predict when, where, and how a population will respond to a given selection pressure. One of the many exciting results from Richard Lenski’s long-term experimental evolutio...

Editorial note Volume 6 Issue 3

JAMA Theme Issue on Neurology: Call for Papers.

JAMAwill be publishing a theme issue on neurology in April 2014 tocoincidewith theAmericanAcademyofNeurologyScientific Sessions. It is appropriate and timely, coinciding with President Obama’s announcement of a major new neuroscience enterprise, the BrainResearch throughAdvancing InnovativeNeurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.This initiativehas grown out of the Brain ActivityMap (BAM) project e...