Cancer, metabolism and the wisdom of Lewis Cantley on fructose
When we published Luc Tappy’s Q&A on fructose toxicity two years ago at the time of our first conference on Metabolism diet and disease, he took the line… Read more »
Miranda Robertson
Editor at BMC Biology
Latest posts by Miranda Robertson (see all)
- The scientific Odyssey: Pre-registering the voyage - 3rd May 2017
- A year of almost anything you can think of in life science – an eclectic pick from BMC Biology - 13th January 2017
- Peer review: opting out - 23rd September 2016
Evolvability and the inexplicable
The theory of evolution by natural selection is unarguably the most influential in the history of biology, but it has been dogged with controversy since its… Read more »
Impact and the rearview mirror
Impact factors are like intelligence quotients: it’s clear they are a measure of something, but it’s not entirely clear what. BMC Biology’s has gone up… Read more »
Peer review – eLife goes portable
Selective journals, in particular journals that select on grounds of interest or importance, inevitably disappoint many authors of papers that ought to be… Read more »
Painful publishing – whose fault?
In the five years since the publication of the ‘Painful publishing’ letter in Science by Martin Raff , Alexander Johnson and Peter Walter, and the four… Read more »
Open questions from a tax-paying homeotherm
Biologists have become wary of claiming that any cellular system is now understood but for the odd t left uncrossed, or i undotted, at least since the discovery… Read more »
Petsko goes global
Gregory Petsko, best known to BioMed Central for his inimitable comment articles in Genome Biology and BMC Biology, has this year succeeded to the Presidency of… Read more »
Ockham’s broom and the disclosure of dirty secrets – New in Journal of Biology
No, not Ockham’s razor and the parsimony principle. Ockham’s broom, newer by some centuries, is an implement conceived by Sydney Brenner whereby… Read more »
Q&A: The re-review opt-out experiment in Journal of Biology
Miranda Robertson What is the re-review opt-out experiment?Read the editorial in Journal of Biology, I’m not repeating myself. (But briefly, where… Read more »