Keeping a close eye on MERS-CoV during a global pandemic
SARS-CoV-2 is not the only coronavirus that needs attention now. The Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to erupt in part of the world.… Read more »
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DNA Day Quiz 2021
In celebration of DNA Day, the editorial team at BMC has put together the following quiz for our readers to test their knowledge and maybe even learn something new!… Read more »
DNA and its (journal) children
A look at one of our most prominent genetics journals (Clinical Epigenetics) and its new companion publication (Epigenetics Communications), that both present the… Read more »
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Characterizing an ancient gene variant influencing coat color in modern dogs using citizen science and dog DNA samples
Citizen science has facilitated a large genotype screening of pet dogs in order to understand the effect of one of the earliest… Read more »
What makes a prize-winning paper? Observations from the 2020 Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award
We take a look at the papers that won this year’s Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award, and catch up with the… Read more »
Exploring the history of smallpox vaccination with 19th Century American vaccination kits
A recent study published in Genome Biology has explored the early history of smallpox vaccination by sequencing DNA from… Read more »
One Health Day Quiz 2020
One Health is about the convergence of human, animal, and plant health and the health of the environment. In celebration of One… Read more »
Fruit bats in flight
Already faced with challenges, such as habitat loss, bushmeat hunting, and bad press due to associations with infectious diseases,… Read more »
A protective nesting association with white storks aids the spread of an invasive parakeet from urban into rural habitats
Dailos Hernández-Brito, author of a new publication in Frontiers in Zoology, takes us through a commensalism relationship between… Read more »
New method helps target local butterfly conservation efforts
In the UK, abundance trends of butterflies has typically always been calculated at a national level, however in new research… Read more »