DNA methylation of drug transporter gene might explain chemoresistance in liver cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma is the third highest cause of cancer-related death world-wide. Although several treatments are available – and many more are… 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
November highlights from Genome Medicine: miRNA as a biomarker, RNA-seq, diabetes and more
November’s issueof Genome Medicine reflects the excitement in the field about the potential for RNA to act as a biomarker for disease and to help researchers… Read more »
Genome Medicine workshop at 7th Annual Meeting of Asian Epigenome Alliance
The Editors of Genome Medicine are delighted to announce a Workshop on the Epigenetics/Epigenomics of Disease to be held as part of the 7th Annual Meeting of… Read more »
Genome Medicine announces ‘Genomics to disease mechanisms’ special issue
May 2014 – See Call for papers https://genomemedicine.com/about/update/genomicstomechanism and details below. Genome Medicine would like to announce a… Read more »
Data sharing: lessons from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Sharing of scientific data has many benefits. It boosts research, speeds up translation and helps ensure that good practice is maintained. The teams that… Read more »
An answer to the problem of non-communicable diseases?
Every year non-communicable diseases (such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes) kill 36 million people worldwide, a quarter of whom die before the age of 60.… Read more »
Genome Medicine visits HUPO 2011: It’s all speeding up
There can’t be many ‘omics’ researchers in the past year who haven’t heard conference speakers question when – or whether – genomic medicine is… Read more »
Predicting genetic risk for disease
A lot has been written about the potential for genomic information to revolutionize medicine. Much of the excitement centers around the idea that if we know an… Read more »
Linking diet and hormone exposure to breast cancer risk
One-and-a-half million people worldwide were diagnosed with breast cancer last year. In the UK, it is the most common form of cancer. Many studies have tried to… Read more »
Genetic defects linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia in the developed world. Recent progress has resulted in a flurry of papers identifying new genes… Read more »