8th ASICON – Mumbai-India, 30 Oct.-1 Nov 2015

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.
1The 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.