When it comes to climate change, we know a hundred times more about how life on land is going to respond than life in the sea. 1 Coral reefs are a massive store of biodiversity, an untapped genetic reservoir and a key font of resources, but they are declining at a rapid rate. A recent… Read more »
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You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow Eminem, 'Lose Yourself' Hip hop has-been Marshall Mathers III may or may not have been musing on the technical challenges of single-cell sequencing when he uttered these words, but he might as well have been. Because each cell only gives up its contents… Read more »
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This is a follow-up to a previous blog post, Artisanal Portuguese salinas: remembering the past, building the future. For many centuries, the salt extraction industry was among Portugal’s main economic activities, a catalyst for internal and external commercial growth. Although it was visibly responsible for boosting population in several coastal regions, from the mid-20th century… Read more »
Written by Sam Rose, JDE, Investigative Genetics With the current, and rapidly spreading, worldwide situation of incorrect meat labelling, the question continually arises of how are we to manage this? Not knowing what meats we are actually buying and eating is an important issue to most people for a variety of reasons, occasionally religious, but… Read more »
In the five years since the publication of the ‘Painful publishing’ letter in Science by Martin Raff , Alexander Johnson and Peter Walter, and the four since we (then Journal of Biology, now BMC Biology) started our experimental re-review opt-out policy, many voices have been raised in protest at the tyranny (sic) of reviewers, and… Read more »
The evolution of predator-prey interactions yields interesting adaptations, resulting in some quirky phenomena. Snakes are a commonly-feared predator and people are familiar with (and dread) the venomous ones. There are two ways in which snakes have evolved to utilize their venom to capture prey. One method is to strike and hold, whereby the snake maintains… Read more »