Two rarities seldom seen by Bostonians are the American Society of Human Genetics Annual Meeting (aka ASHG) and the baseball World Series. The former was last in Boston 60 years ago, in 1953 – the year of the double helix. The latter, a contest between grown men – as evidenced by a dazzling roster of… Read more »
1As Halloween begins, and night inevitably creeps closer, we’ve been scouring our open access research for the creepiest, weirdest, and grossest research we can get our claws into. The world’s cutest vampire The kodkod, also known as the guiña, is the smallest cat in the Americas. Not many people have heard of the kodkod, which… Read more »
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Gut Pathogens is delighted to introduce two new thematic series, highlighting articles published in the journal on the topics of Probiotics and Metagenomic analysis of gut pathogens. Probiotics is a term used to describe any micro-organism which has a beneficial impact on another organism. There has been extensive research into probiotics and their health implications,… Read more »
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Elephants’ social skills are vital to their survival, helping them to live as part of a group. But research published in Frontiers in Zoology this week shows that African Elephants lose these vital skills as a result of human activity. Elephants that have suffered traumatic events, separation from family members and/ or translocations have a… Read more »
Bowhead whales congregate in Disko Bay, West Greenland, in winter and spring in order to take advantage of high quality feeding opportunities, finds a new study published in Animal Biotelemetry today. The whales diving behaviour differs between winter and spring months, matching the seasonal changes in availability of copepods nearer the surface. By tagging nine… Read more »
The rate of submission of articles to Retrovirology continues on a steady upward curve as it consolidates its position as the leading specialist Virology journal. To help us to deal with this welcome increase in workload and also to expand the range of expertise within the Associate Editorship, Retrovirology is delighted to announce that two… Read more »
Black bears in California’s Sierra Nevada could come into contact with humans more often as they travel further to find available food, finds a new study in Animal Biotelemetry today. With increasing threats to the bears natural food sources of sugar pine seeds and blue acorns, this could lead to an increase in human-bear incidents… Read more »
It seems that scientific research in the last two hundred years or so has made a full conceptual circle. In the good old days of the nineteenth century, any Englishman with a vaguely middle-class background, a source of modest income and an insatiable curiosity could treat research as an eccentric pastime. Whether that meant sea… Read more »
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Retrovirology is pleased to announce the publication of its 1000th article, a fantastic milestone for the journal. The article is from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, analysing new simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) identified from nine black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza) from the Kibale National Park in Uganda. With limited taxonomic and geographic sampling… Read more »
Retrovirology, currently enjoying its 10th anniversary, saw the publication of its 1000th article this week: Discovery and full genome characterization of two highly divergent simian immunodeficiency viruses infecting black-and-white colobus monkeys (Colobus guereza) in Kibale National Park, Uganda, by Michael Lauck and colleagues. Guest blogger, Liam Prestwood from University of Cambridge, has summarised the key… Read more »