The blood ties to the methylomes of the mind
Hot on the heels of personal genomics has come personal methylomics, where researchers use high-throughput methods to interrogate the DNA methylation landscape… Read more »
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Did Schroedinger's cat have a genome?: Genome Biology at Biology of Genomes 2012
Imagine an RNA molecule keeping company with an RNA editing enzyme, both inside a sealed box. If no observer is able to witness an editing event, will it ever… Read more »
Submission deadline extension for Genome Biology's Special Issue on Epigenomics
Genome Biology would like to announce an extension to the submission deadline for our Special Issue on Epigenomics, planned for publication in late summer 2012.… Read more »
The Science of Baby Poop
The trouble with trying to understand human biology is that in many jurisdictions it is not considered ethical to poke about too much with healthy individuals… Read more »
Introducing Genome Biology’s special issue Guest Editor: Alex Meissner
As reported previously on this blog, Genome Biology is to publish a special issue on epigenomics in the late summer. For consideration in the issue, we are… Read more »
Spicing up splicing – with poison exons
Regulatory networks in which proteins bind to DNA to alter gene expression are a well established feature of cell biology, but less is known about whether this… Read more »
Susan Greenfield on women in science: not much has improved in 10 years
A free podcast, released on International Women's Day, explores the challenges faced by female researchers in British science. The interviewee is Baroness Susan… Read more »
Beware of the birds: Greg Petsko on H5N1
When is it right to censor science? In a recently published BMC Biology Comment article (covered in this blog by Penelope Austin), Peter Doherty and Paul Thomas… Read more »
From the Rhine to the Rift Valley: Human population genetics in Genome Biology
Has hypoxia adaptation in the Ethiopian highlands mirrored that seen in Tibet and the Andes? Is there a genetic definition for an Ashkenazi Jew? These are two… Read more »
Genome Biology’s two-mile high epigenomic epiphanies
"A Lamarckian contribution to natural selection doesn't make much sense to me," says father-of-(modern) epigenetics Andy Feinberg as he opens his… Read more »