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Open questions in biology

Collection published: 1 February 2013

Last updated: 27 February 2013

Key BMC Biology has a scope that extends across all of biology and that is reflected in the varied expertise of our Editorial Board. Because their input is in turn crucial in the selection of both our research and our commissioned content, we invited all of our Editorial Board members to mark the tenth anniversary year of BMC Biology with short contributions representing their views on pressing or just interesting open questions in their fields, and thus to share their perspective with readers, contributors, and authors or potential authors of research submissions.

Contributions will be added throughout the year, and beyond, as new Editorial Board members join us.

		Comment Open questions: What is there left for cell biologists to do? Sean Munro BMC Biology 2013, 11:16 (27 February 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| Editor’s summary In a contribution to the 10^th anniversary series on open questions in biology, Sean Munro asks provocatively what there is left for cell biologists to do, and with great elan and a touch of waspish humor produces five unanswered questions on issues from the special properties of non-dividing cells to the architecture of the brain.
		Comment Open questions: Chromosome condensation - Why does a chromosome look like a chromosome? Frank Uhlmann BMC Biology 2013, 11:9 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary In his contribution to the ‘Open questions’ anniversary collection for BMC Biology, Frank Uhlmann poses the unsolved problem of chromosome packaging
		Comment Open questions - in brief: Beyond -omics, missing motor proteins, and getting from molecules to organisms Stephen J Benkovic, Julie Theriot, Dagmar Ringe BMC Biology 2013, 11:8 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Editorial Open questions in biology - a tenth anniversary series Miranda Robertson BMC Biology 2013, 11:7 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary To celebrate its tenth anniversary, BMC Biology asked its Editorial Board members to write a paragraph or two on their favorite open questions in biology, and this month it publishes the first contributions, on topics from the challenges of proteomics to the mechanisms of apoptosis.
		Comment Open questions: missing pieces from the immunological jigsaw puzzle Gillian M Griffiths BMC Biology 2013, 11:10 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Gillian Griffiths, in her ‘Open questions’ contribution for BMC Biology, pinpoints some critical missing links in the cell-biological specializations of immune cells

		Comment Open questions: What is there left for cell biologists to do? Sean Munro BMC Biology 2013, 11:16 (27 February 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| Editor’s summary In a contribution to the 10^th anniversary series on open questions in biology, Sean Munro asks provocatively what there is left for cell biologists to do, and with great elan and a touch of waspish humor produces five unanswered questions on issues from the special properties of non-dividing cells to the architecture of the brain.
		Comment Open questions: Chromosome condensation - Why does a chromosome look like a chromosome? Frank Uhlmann BMC Biology 2013, 11:9 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary In his contribution to the ‘Open questions’ anniversary collection for BMC Biology, Frank Uhlmann poses the unsolved problem of chromosome packaging
		Comment Open questions - in brief: Beyond -omics, missing motor proteins, and getting from molecules to organisms Stephen J Benkovic, Julie Theriot, Dagmar Ringe BMC Biology 2013, 11:8 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed
		Editorial Open questions in biology - a tenth anniversary series Miranda Robertson BMC Biology 2013, 11:7 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary To celebrate its tenth anniversary, BMC Biology asked its Editorial Board members to write a paragraph or two on their favorite open questions in biology, and this month it publishes the first contributions, on topics from the challenges of proteomics to the mechanisms of apoptosis.
		Comment Open questions: missing pieces from the immunological jigsaw puzzle Gillian M Griffiths BMC Biology 2013, 11:10 (31 January 2013) Abstract \| Full text \| PDF \| PubMed \| Editor’s summary Gillian Griffiths, in her ‘Open questions’ contribution for BMC Biology, pinpoints some critical missing links in the cell-biological specializations of immune cells