Highlights from ISMBECCB 2019
BMC Bioinformatics recently attended the annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular (ISMB) meeting in Basel, Switzerland which, this year, was held jointly with… Read more »
21 Aug 2019
Open research pioneers, open perspectives
Open research pioneers, open perspectives
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Schistosomiasis… coming to a river near you
Schistosomiasis is a ‘neglected tropical disease’ caused by infection with a freshwater parasitic worm. But is it still a tropical disease? A recent… Read more »
Characteristics of patients attending English and Welsh Hospitals with Lyme disease
What are the characteristics of patients with Lyme disease in England and Wales? In this blog post, the author of a new study recently published in BMC Public… Read more »
Why it’s Good News the Suicide Scene from 13 Reasons Why got Deleted
Evidence suggests that the media can influence suicide contagion through sensational and irresponsible reporting. Thus, a published study in BMC Public Health… Read more »
So you want to do biocodicology?
Biocodicology, the study of the biological information stored in manuscripts, offers the possibility of interrogating manuscripts in novel ways. The authors of… Read more »
Answering the call for real-time plant disease diagnostics in resource-poor regions
Plant pests and diseases are a real concern for the global agriculture industry and to food security. Early warning systems are essential to preparing for and… Read more »
Robots and the workforce: understanding the research
As artificial intelligence (AI) technology develops at breakneck speed, some worry that robots may take away jobs. A new research primer from the Journal of… Read more »
Benefits and challenges of psychedelic microdosing – as reported by microdosers
According to some media reports, consumption of small amounts of psychedelic substances (“microdosing”), is increasing in popularity, despite a lack of… Read more »
Artificial Vision
In this blog, Dr John Pezaris explains the challenges facing the development of visual prostheses to enable recipients to see, and discusses some of the… Read more »
