Gut Pathogens is now accepting submissions of Genome Announcements – articles giving a brief and concise account of a complete or partial genome of a gut pathogen or probiotic organism. Gut Pathogens, which received an Impact Factor of 2.11 this year, is truly an international journal and the ideal forum for the rapid and global… Read more »
The October 2012 issue of Genome Biology will be a bumper special issue dedicated to all things epigenomic, packed with new research, reviews and comment. The issue will feature an editorial from Guest Editor Dr Alexander Meissner (Harvard University; Broad Institute), alongside articles contributed by many leaders in the fields of epigenomics, genomics and bioinformatics,… Read more »
Vetulicolians, extinct for some 500 million years, are the very embodiment of an ‘enigmatic taxon’, looking quite unlike any creature living today. Since the first fossils were discovered in China by Degan Shu and co-workers over a decade ago, vetulicolians have been suggested to be arthropods, lobopodians, kinorhynchs and deuterostomes (their discoverers preferring the… Read more »
A new thematic series on the genetic basis of mood and anxiety disorders has published its first articles this week in Biology of Mood & Anxiety Disorders. In her introductory editorial, guest editor for the series Elisabeth Binder highlights the recent developments discovered through the use of genome wide association studies, and discusses the constraints… Read more »
Little is known about the pathogenesis of the secondary form of Raynaud’s disease, vibration-induced white finger disease (VWF), a painful condition affecting the blood vessels and nerves after prolonged use of vibrating machinery. A new study in Clinical Epigenetics by Susanne Voelter-Mahlknecht et al. reports that the Sirt1A2191G single nucleotide polymorphism is a diagnostic marker for… Read more »