The Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer (BCEC) entitled "Challenges, opportunities and perspectives" took place November 21-22, 2013 in Barcelona. The 2013 BCEC is the first edition of a series of annual conferences jointly organized by five leading research centers in Barcelona. These centers are the Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), the Biomedical...

BACKGROUND We conducted a comprehensive bibliometrics analysis to calculate the H, G, M, A and R indicators for all Iranian biomedical research centers (IBRCs) from the output of ISI Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus between 1991 and 2010. We compared the research performance of the research centers according to these indicators. METHODS This was a cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical stu...

We propose a novel method based on the inverse problem approach to optimize shape of magnet generates high uniformity magnetic fields in magnetometer with diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers. Our original can determine combination moments required design unique shape. obtained small (optimized model, 15 × 25 mm3 and mm3) for integrated magnetometry system improved from 83.6% 99.0% NV centers ...

The biomedical research community relies on a diverse set of resources, both within their own institutions and at other research centers. In addition, an increasing number of shared electronic resources have been developed. Without effective means to locate and query these resources, it is challenging, if not impossible, for investigators to be aware of the myriad resources available, or to eff...

in a hydrothermal route devoted for synthesis of ca10(po4)6(oh)2 (ha) nanostructures, morphology can be controlled by experimental condition to form magical ha or nanostructured nanoparticles. in an intermediate condition, a novel nanostructure namely rose-like bundle of ha rod-likes was found, which is different from known ha nanostructures. the chemical synthesis of nanopowders under hydrothe...

background: chitosan nanoparticles have become of great interest for nanomedicine, biomedical engineering and development of new therapeutic drug release systems with improved bioavailability, increased specificity and sensitivity, and reduced pharmacological toxicity. the aim of the present study is to synthesis and optimization of chitosan nanoparticles for industrial and biomedical applicati...

Sharing biomedical research and health care data is important but difficult. Recognizing this, many initiatives facilitate, fund, request, or require researchers to share their data [1–5] . These initiatives address the technical aspects of data sharing, but rarely focus on incentives for key stakeholders [6]. Academic health centers (AHCs) have a critical role in enabling, encouraging, and rew...

Security is a high priority issue in medical domain, because many institutions performing biomedical research work with sensitive medical data regularly. This issue becomes more complicated, when it is desirable or needed to access and analyze data in a multi-institutional setting. In the NCI cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) program, several security issues were raised that existing s...

Biomedical knowledge is one of the pivots of e-health research. This is oriented to the discovery and management of customized and adaptive biomedical information concerning the assisted users, organizational workflows, and living situations. Signal processing in e-health is deployed by means of layers of distributed components from smart sensors to mathematical models in computing provider cen...

Biomedical Informatics deals with the study and analysis of disease related data to aid drug discovery and help find better treatment procedures. The data includes heterogeneous information such as patient records, clinical observations and experimental genomic data. These data sets are distributed among various hospitals, diagnosis and research centers that are geographically separated and ind...