Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học quốc tế cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Progress, challenges, and responsibilities in retrovirology | Retrovirology BioMed Central Editorial Progress challenges and responsibilities in retrovirology Kuan-Teh Jeang Open Access Address the National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD USA Email Kuan-Teh Jeang - kj7e@ Corresponding author Received 10 January 2005 Accepted 1 1 January 2005 Published 11 January 2005 Retrovirology 2005 2 1 doi 1742-4690-2-1 This article is available from http content 2 1 1 2005 Jeang licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In this editorial Retrovirology s choice for best basic science retrovirus paper of the year and a perspective on challenges and responsibilities facing HIV-1 and HTLV-I research are presented. Progress The beginning of a year provides an occasion to look back upon progress made over the past 52 weeks. With the end of 2004 Retrovirology concluded its first calendar year of publishing. In actual fact Retrovirology launched as an Open Access journal the final week of February 2004 and has been publishing continuously for a little more than 10 months. Over that period with the wonderful efforts from my 6 very capable Associate Editors Monsef Benkirane Ben Berkhout Masa Fujii Mike Lairmore Andrew Lever and Mark Wainberg the journal has thrived. The goal that we set for Retrovirology is to provide a visible forum for retrovirologists so that their works can be read by all in a free and openly accessible manner. What this means is that if you are a human immunodeficiency virus HIV -researcher and you had published a paper in Retro-virology a graduate student in Sri Lanka updating his her research protocol an AIDS activist in South Africa looking for the latest information and even your long-lost high school sweetheart wondering what .