08/11/2015 Franco Buonaguro

The 8th National Conference of AIDS Society of India (ASICON) a relevant scientific meeting and an occasion to celebrate Indian heroes fighting against AIDS/HIV .

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06/11/2015 Graham Bell & Emma Saxon

Following on from Emma Saxon’s blog post introducing BMC Biology’s series on the importance of well-designed figures for reproducibility, here Emma and Graham Bell discuss the comments they’ve received from readers of the series.

05/11/2015 Rafal Marszalek

If PCR was in molecular biology the invention of the 20^th century, genome editing tools are the invention of the 21^st. This month Genome Biology takes a closer look at this promising but still very young technology.

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05/11/2015 Louisa Flintoft

Genome Biology has published work investigating the causes of fertility problems, and finds the earliest known human embryonic lethality phenotype with a known genetic cause. Here to answer our questions on the research is co-author Fowzan Alkuraya.

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05/11/2015 Kun Yu & Karen Cheng

The official conference of the Chinese Society for Microbiology was held in Yichang in the late fall. Attracting more than 1000 microbiologists, BioMed Central’s Kun Yu and Karen Cheng talk about the discussions held at the conference.