JoVE Announces the Release of Its 500th Video-Article

May 11, 2010 - PRLog -- Somerville, MA, May 10, 2010-- The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), today announced “JoVE 500,” the release of its 500th video article.  The landmark publication, from the laboratory of Dr. Eric Lander at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, was published simultaneously with an article from the laboratory of Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla at the University of California, San Francisco.  

Dr. Arturo Alvarez-Buylla’s article, “Wholemount Technique for Analysis of Neurogenesis in the Ventricular and Subventricular Zones of the Lateral Ventricle and Ependymal Flow Assays,” and Dr. Eric Lander’s, “Hi-C: A Method to Study the Three Dimensional Architecture of Genomes,” will both appear in JoVE’s 38th issue and will be available for free on www.jove.com.

"We are very excited to release JoVE 500, and it's a great pleasure to release video-articles authored by such distinguished scientists," said Moshe Pritsker, CEO of JoVE. “Both Dr. Lander’s and Dr. Alvarez-Buylla’s techniques are truly groundbreaking, and we’re honored to have published them. The 500th article is, of course, a milestone for us, but we’re equally excited about the next 500 as we continue to expand our reach throughout the community.”

Dr. Lander serves as co-chair of President Obama’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. He is a professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the director and founder of the Broad Institute.  As one of the primary leaders of the human genome project, Dr. Lander has played a pivotal role in revolutionizing the field of geneomics. His article in JoVE explains his lab’s development of the Hi-C method, an extension of chromosome conformation capture (3C) that allows scientists to evaluate interactions among different parts of the genome. By observing gene interactions in three dimensions for the first time, scientists hope to gain better insight into the genome's architecture and regulation.  

Dr. Alvarez-Buylla, a professor of Neurological Surgery at UCSF, has acquired an international reputation for his work on neural stem cells. His video-article outlines the wholemount approach, which provides a comprehensive, en-face view of the walls of the lateral ventricles, the largest germinal region in the adult mammalian brain. A novel, experimental technique, the wholemount approach is expected to revolutionize this scientific field as an essential tool for understanding the organization of adult neural stem cells.

The JoVE 500 publications, authored by world leading scientists, highlight recent fundamental changes occurring in the scholarly publishing industry. The innovative, online, video-based format of scientific articles developed and employed by JoVE is gaining increasing acceptance by the mainstream academic community.


About JoVE:
Founded in 2006, The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is the first and only PubMed indexed, web-based video methods journal devoted to biological research. The JoVE format has a significantly higher capacity for visualization than the traditional print medium, thereby increasing the reproducibility of published studies. JoVE has to date released 37 monthly issues, including nearly 600 video-protocols on experimental approaches in neuroscience, immunology, microbiology, bioengineering, medicine and other fields, produced in laboratories of leading academic institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale and NIH. To facilitate integration of video into scientific publishing, JoVE has developed an organizational and technical network to perform and/or assist scientists with filming and editing in their labs. This network currently includes eight countries: USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Israel, Sweden, Australia and Japan. For more information, visit http://www.jove.com


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The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is the first and only PubMed indexed, web-based video methods journal devoted to biological research. JoVE's format has a higher capacity for visualization, increasing the reproducibility of published studies.