Spotlight on…. high-resolution biology
High-resolution imaging and genomic technologies are changing the way we view the environment, cells, chromosomes and molecules. From super-resolution… Read more »
Dr Maria Hodges manages a team of in-house editors on the BMC Series journals, including the editors for BMC Cancer, BMC Genomics and BMC Plant Biology. She joined the BMC Series in July 2018. Previously, Maria was the Scientific Publications Manager for Cancer Research UK, managing the British Journal of Cancer. Before this, Maria was Acting Editor for Genome Medicine and an Editor for Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. Maria has a PhD in biochemistry from Cancer Research UK.
Latest posts by Maria Hodges (see all)
- Spotlight on…. high-resolution biology - 18th March 2022
- Transparency, Openness and Peer Review - 4th May 2020
- Tailoring therapeutic interventions for breast cancer patients - 25th October 2013
Transparency, Openness and Peer Review
When BMC was founded 20 years ago, a lot was different. The open access (OA) movement was still in its infancy, the digital movement towards both the production… Read more »
Tailoring therapeutic interventions for breast cancer patients
Posted on behalf of Ru Bains, assistant editor for Genome Medicine Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, and it is the second most common… Read more »
Understanding HPV-positive carcinoma for better outcomes
Head and neck cancer is the sixth most common cancer worldwide, and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is the most frequent form. Certain subtypes of… Read more »
Genome Medicine announces 'Single cell analysis' special issue: call for papers
Later this year, Genome Medicine will publish a special issue on the topic of Single cell analysis: into the clinic. This issue will highlight the rapid… Read more »
Side effects of prednisolone, an anti-inflammatory drug
Anti-inflammatory drugs are taken for many conditions including asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and colitis. The most common class of these drugs, glucocorticoids,… Read more »
Metabolomics podcast by Genome Medicine
To round off our series on the Metabolomics of disease, Genome Medicine’s Editor, Rebecca Furlong, talks to leading scientists Tim Veenstra, David Wishart and… Read more »
Two steps to detecting stroke risk in women taking hormone therapy
Debates rage over why multiple large-scale studies to uncover risk factors for stroke have so far explained only a tiny proportion of inherited stroke cases and… Read more »
Call for papers: Genome Medicine announces a series on Pharmacogenomics
Efforts to predict and monitor drug response in individuals and in the population have increased markedly over the past few years, but there is a need for… Read more »
An interactive introduction to metabolomics
What is metabolomics and how is it being used to predict and manage disease? That’s the subject of Genome Medicine‘s and BioMed Central’s first… Read more »