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Introducing the TE Hub, a platform for researchers in Transposable Elements

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 17:22:34 +0000

The TE Hub Consortium recently authored a commentary for Mobile DNA on the TE Hub, an open and collaborative platform, providing an entry point and reference site for researchers interested in Transposable Element (TE) diversity, identification, and annotation. While we eagerly await the publication in our journal, the authors participated in a sneak preview Q & A about the project.

Meet the SDG3 researchers: Pablo Gaitán-Rossi

Pablo Gaitán-Rossi — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:07:56 +0000

Pablo Gaitán-Rossi is a health researcher at EQUIDE, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. His research focuses on health equity, well-being and social policy. His academic interests are on food insecurity; mental health; and maternal health and early child development.

Meet the SDG3 researchers: Pablo Gaitán-Rossi

Pablo Gaitán-Rossi — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 13:07:56 +0000

Meet the SDG3 researchers: Nistara Randhawa

Dr. Nistara Randhawa — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:00:38 +0000

Dr. Nistara Randhawa is an epidemiologist at the Wildlife Health Center/One Health Institute, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA. Her work bridges the worlds of animal, human, and environmental health; R programming; disease modeling; and visual story telling.

Meet the SDG3 researchers: Nistara Randhawa

Dr. Nistara Randhawa — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 09:00:38 +0000

Helping ensure that forest bioenergy is environmentally sustainable

Brian Titus — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:00:47 +0000

Can removal of woody materials from forests for renewable bioenergy production be environmentally sustainable? A recent review in Energy, Sustainability and Society demonstrates that a wide range of environmental and social values can be protected when harvesting forest biomass, such as harvest residues, salvaged sub-merchantable trees, diseased or dead trees, and whole-tree thinnings.

Using design thinking to cultivate the next generation of female STEM thinkers

Marcos Sadao Maekawa, Rie Kijima & Mariko Yang-Yoshihara — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:00:21 +0000

The authors of a new study designed a three-day design thinking workshop, providing empirical support that a short intervention can produce positive change in female youths’ perceptions of STEM.

Malaria Screener: Harnessing smartphone technology to automate malaria diagnostics

Catherine Dominic — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:00:10 +0000

Malaria continues to be a global challenge to population health, and the scale of the problem is driven by a lack of trained personnel and equipment to speed up diagnostic processes in resource-limited settings. The development of applications and processes to automate malaria diagnosis may circumvent this hurdle, allowing for more rapid treatment of patients.

Highlights from the BMC Series – November 2020

Kate Gaines & Rachelle Todd — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:42:18 +0000

The micropolitics of healthcare, primary care in the midst of the opioid epidemic, contaminated wooly mammoth DNA, and more.

What makes a prize-winning paper? Observations from the 2020 Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award

Amy Joint — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:45:07 +0000

We take a look at the papers that won this year’s Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award, and catch up with the winners to see what research they have undertaken since.