Helpful predictability in colorectal cancer
Two recent studies in Genome Biology measuring the mutational difference between the primary and metastatic colorectal cancer confirm high concordance of… Read more »
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Rafal Marszalek
Senior Editor at Genome Biology
Rafal did his PhD in single-cell proteomics at Imperial College London. He joined BioMed Central in 2012 to become a member of Genome Biology's editorial team, where he is a Senior Editor.
Latest posts by Rafal Marszalek (see all)
- Using CRISPR/Cas9 to genetically modify crops - 30th November 2015
- Cas9: one protein to rule them all - 24th November 2015
- Generating attenuated malaria parasites with genome editing: an author Q+A - 17th November 2015
New toolbox: what we need to handle a new human reference assembly
A new, fully annotated reference human genome, GRCh38, has now been available for a little over a year. It brought a wealth of new information, but also opened… Read more »
On a personal note: cancer genomics and personalized medicine
When I was three years old my grandma passed away after a long fight with cancer. I should disclaim quickly: it never affected me greatly, since I was too young… Read more »
Word of caution: a new method to study RNA-seq biases
As next generation sequencing methods quickly become ubiquitous tools of genomics, more and more effort is directed to understand what are the limitations of… Read more »
It’s in your genes: a new method for cancer drug response prediction
One of the greatest challenges of current medicine is predicting how a patient will respond to a given drug. In an ideal world, where time, money and – most… Read more »
Methylating much?
Our readers might have gotten distracted this month by discussions on whether it is right or wrong for Illumina to limit researchers’ use of their kit, and so… Read more »
Uniform diversity: a genome-wide study of PRC1 ortholog localization
Polycomb-group proteins are a well-characterized family of proteins involved in chromatin remodeling. In mammals, Polycomb-group proteins form two multiprotein… Read more »
Cancer progression Genome Biology special issue: call for papers
Genome Biology would like to announce that we are now inviting Research, Method or Software manuscript submissions for publication in a special issue on cancer… Read more »
Buzz-phrase of the month: 'insect genomes' in the latest issue of Genome Biology
About one million insect species have been identified to date; however, many people believe that with this number we’re merely scratching the surface and… Read more »
Fred Sanger: I think you should try harder
Genome Biology was sad to learn of Frederick Sanger’s death on Tuesday, November 19th. Although Sanger retired from scientific research 30 years ago, long… Read more »