24/06/2015 Karen Cheng

Oral health is essential to general health and quality of life. According to the WHO’s statistics report, 60-90% of school children and nearly 100% of adults worldwide have dental cavities. About 30% of people aged 65-74 have no natural teeth. Artificial dental biomaterials are consequently enabling much of the world to do something as vital as eat…as well as helping some of us to attain that picture perfect smile.

18/06/2015 Susanna Lau & Jasper Chan

News continues to proliferate about the MERS outbreak in South Korea. Here, Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan and Susanna Kar-Pui Lau write for Virology Journal on what MERS is and what is being done to contain the outbreak.

16/06/2015 Sam Rose

Genes and Environment has officially launched with BioMed Central! To mark this special occasion we look at a few aspects of environmental mutagenesis, and the status of open access in Japan.

12/06/2015 Franco Buonaguro

Franco Buonaguro tells us about the international GVN meeting in this guest blog, including thoughts from Professor Yi Zeng, GVN China Center of Excellence Director.

11/06/2015 Barbara Cheifet

Recent work published in Genome Biology identifies a tumor suppressor gene as a human epiallele which responds to the environment, and suggests a mother’s nutrition in early pregnancy may affect DNA methylation in her child. Here, I asked co-authors of the research, Matt Silver from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and Noah Kessler from Baylor College of Medicine, more about their findings.

05/06/2015 Sophie Marchant

A round-up of recent research published elsewhere across open access biology.

01/06/2015 Rafal Marszalek

Lessons about the epidemic control are usually learned the hard way. So what have we learned from the most recent outbreaks of Ebola and other diseases, and how can the most recent developments in sequencing technology help us apply this knowledge in the future?

01/06/2015 Barbara Cheifet

Can studying protein domains help us understand protein evolution? Alex Bateman and William Pearson are authors on two studies recently published in Genome Biology. We asked them to tell us more about their findings.

01/06/2015 Dr. Lucia Altucci

The importance of the human epigenome in both health and disease is increasingly being realized. In the post, Dr. Lucia Altucci introduces two of the major consortia established in recent years that aim to uncover the mysteries of our epigenomic landscape.