Often times, the application of scientific research to everyday life is not clear to the general public. Where the importance of science and its application to everyday life can be clearly demonstrated to everyone is the impact on food production. In his blog, Kustrim Cerimi suggests how mycology can help us to reinvent the world famous Berlin currywurst to suit the growing demand for…

Often times, the application of scientific research to everyday life is not clear to the general public. Where the importance of science and its application to everyday life can be clearly demonstrated to everyone is the impact on food production. In his blog, Kustrim Cerimi suggests how mycology can help us to reinvent the world famous Berlin currywurst to suit the growing demand for…

The TE Hub Consortium recently authored a commentary for Mobile DNA on the TE Hub, an open and collaborative platform, providing an entry point and reference site for researchers interested in Transposable Element (TE) diversity, identification, and annotation. While we eagerly await the publication in our journal, the authors participated in a sneak preview Q & A about the project.

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. A new study published in Infectious Diseases of Poverty details an up-to-date picture of the spatial diffusion pattern of MERS and associated socio-environmental drivers, aided by an impressive real-time tracking tool of MERS-CoV…

Citizen science has facilitated a large genotype screening of pet dogs in order to understand the effect of one of the earliest mutations captured by canine domestication. Dr Heidi Anderson, author of the new study published in Canine Medicine and Genetics, takes us through the findings on the genetic background of coat color.

We take a look at the papers that won this year’s Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award, and catch up with the winners to see what research they have undertaken since.

We take a look at the papers that won this year’s Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award, and catch up with the winners to see what research they have undertaken since.

A recent study published in Genome Biology has explored the early history of smallpox vaccination by sequencing DNA from smallpox vaccination kits dating back to the American Civil War, from the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The beginnings of vaccination are usually credited to Edward Jenner in England in 1796, although various people… Read more »