Highlights of the BMC Series – August 2023
How does conscientious objection impact service users' reproductive rights or abortion journey in the UK? Why are minoritized women in the US less… Read more »
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Introducing BMC Pulmonary Medicine’s new Collection: Brain-Lung Crosstalk
BMC Pulmonary Medicine warmly welcomes submissions to its new article Collection on crosstalk between the brain and lungs.
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Even if you find ticks repulsive, your skin’s electrical charge may find them positively attractive. Previously assumed to… Read more »
A Tale of Two Conferences
Krisztian Magori reports on two very different conferences he attended over the summer, and what he learned at them, both about… Read more »
Locally acquired malaria in Europe and the US
In June 2023, concerning news of locally acquired malaria was reported in the US – the first such cases in twenty years. At the… Read more »
Parasitizing deep-sea hydrothermal vents
What do deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems tell us about parasite richness, diversity and the advantage of certain life history… Read more »
BMC Ecology and Evolution Image Competition 2023: the winning images!
We are delighted to announce the winning images of the 2023 BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition. We received a spectacular… Read more »
Highlights of the BMC Series – July 2023
Do mental health interventions in the workplace have to be targeted to affected people? What do we really know about phytosaurs?… Read more »
New report of a bacterium that blocks malaria transmission
It is not often that malaria research makes it onto the BBC morning news, but it did so very recently, when the discovery of a… Read more »
Are giardiasis-related pathologies caused only by certain Giardia duodenalis assemblages: Molecular epidemiology and assemblage typing of giardiasis infections along the southern shoreline of Lake Malawi
Of the eight morphologically identical but genetically distinct G. duodenalis assemblages A-H, almost all human infections are… Read more »