Open-Phylo: give science back to the people
It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any… 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
Fear the bias no more: a novel technique for accurate microRNA quantification
It is estimated that in a single mammalian cell the median copy number of an mRNA is 17 molecules, with the dynamic range spread over four orders of magnitude.… Read more »
Genome Biology's July issue is brought to you by the letters R, N and A
Following our spectacular special issue on plant genomics (which you can re-live here), July brought another set of amazing articles with a broad, if… Read more »
Nostromo's 8th passenger: the secrets of the Entamoeba invadens genome and transcriptome
Many of the enteric protozoa are dangerous parasites found in a diverse range of animals. One of them, Entamoeba hystolytica, causes colitis and dysentery in… Read more »
Quiet winds of change: DNA methylation can be, surprisingly, quite static
That DNA methylation studies change the way we perceive genetic regulation should be clear to anyone who has read last year’s Genome Biology special issue… Read more »
REAPR: a new genome assembly evaluation tool to rule them all
In January we published CGAL – a new metric for the evaluation of genome assembly quality. This article was a result of a fairly recent revelation in the… Read more »
Complex consensus: PRDM9 binding to DNA is unusually complicated
Taking into account the importance of the role that genetic recombination plays in evolution, adaptation, survival, and – perhaps most importantly – sex, we… Read more »
Cowabunga, dude!: the hidden secrets of the western painted turtle genome
There is something amazingly captivating about turtles: those slow, long-living, hard-shelled creatures, which look very much like how you’d expect a… Read more »
Chicken or the egg: comprehensive annotation of the chicken W sex chromosome
Looking at the problem of sex determination from our anthropocentric perspective, it is easy to forget that the world doesn’t revolve around the Y chromosome.… Read more »
An eye for an eye, a newt for a newt: the genomics of tissue regeneration
On the list of humanity’s priorities, tissue regeneration finds itself near the very top; together with eternal youth and immortality. And, in legends and… Read more »