tRFs and the Argonautes: gene silencing from antiquity
In Greek mythology, the Argonauts are a band of heroes who accompany Jason on his quest to find the Golden Fleece, a garment whose origins likely lie in the use… Read more »
Latest posts by Naomi Attar (see all)
- tRFs and the Argonautes: gene silencing from antiquity - 2nd October 2014
- Keeping up with the Jobses: the role of technology in reproducible research - 26th September 2014
- ‘You might as well patent oxygen’ – an unashamedly unbalanced take on Australia’s support for gene patents - 5th September 2014
Keeping up with the Jobses: the role of technology in reproducible research
AllBio's workshop on 'reproducibility in research' saw a metaphorical bottle smashed against the bow of The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC)'s… Read more »
‘You might as well patent oxygen’ – an unashamedly unbalanced take on Australia’s support for gene patents
Last year, a rainbow coalition of civil liberties campaigners, cancer patients and eminent geneticists – heck, even Jim Watson! – argued before the US… Read more »
How to disarm a superbug – a story told by forensic genomics
Inexplicably absent from the current fad for Scandi-dramas is a mystery thriller set among the geysers, glaciers and Guðmundsdóttirs of Iceland. One… Read more »
Erase/Rewind: editing the epigenome
Recent developments in genome-editing technologies have turned the biotech industry's dream of mastering nature into a fast approaching reality. Want to… Read more »
Genome regulation: it’s the geometry, stupid!
The emerging realization that cells modify the three dimensional arrangement of DNA in order to regulate the genome is changing the way that scientists think… Read more »
Weapons of low-mass destruction: small ORFs in the uncharted parasite genome
In our genomes, there is a whole host of genes hiding in plain sight. These genes are not included in major genome annotation efforts and are widely ignored in… Read more »
The RBPome: unlocking a new layer in gene regulation
In 2012, Genome Biology joined with a number of other journals to publish articles describing the ENCODE project, which set out to catalog how proteins bind to… Read more »
Ready yourself for the RBPome
Genome Biology today publishes the first set of articles in this month's special issue focused on 'the RBPome'. We will continue to publish… Read more »
Binded by the light
A major focus of Genome Biology's RBPome issue is the role that RNA-binding proteins play in regulating splicing within the transcriptome. But what are the… Read more »