Research synopses
Wild worms and proteotoxicity
Wild C.elegans strains provide insights into genetic factors that modify disease susceptibility in the context of protein aggregation and toxicity
Photosynthetic divisions
Plants harvest light either through the C4 or C3 photosynthetic pathway; the protein RLSB may explain their differences in efficiency
Rabbit virus revealed
Lagovirus RHDV2 revealed as a cause of potentially lethal rabbit haemorrhagic disease, exhibiting differences to previously identified RHDV
Spotlight
Francesco Marincola
Marincola discusses the challenges facing translational medicine and the advances that have been made.
Featured articles
Detecting dementia
Research in Genome Biology presents a novel biomarker for Alzheimer's disease based on detecting specific microRNA patterns in patient blood
Critical communications
Good communication is vital to better healthcare especially in situations of clinical uncertainty; a recently developed tool called PACE may aid these...
Fungal spores, feline genomes & cell locomotion
Highlighting the best of the rest in the Open Access ecosystem
Is peer review broken?
A video bringing together perspectives from each role in the process: scientist, reviewer and Editor.
Podcast: Psychiatry in flux
We talk with the Chair of the DSM-5 task force about the implications of recent changes in diagnosing and classifying mental disorders in the USA
BioMed Central Research Award in Neuroscience, Neurology and Psychiatry
Irene Knuesel of the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland wins a BioMed Central category Research Award
