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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 th...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2020/11/16/exploring-the-history-of-smallpox-vaccination-with-19th-century-american-vaccination-kits/

In celebration of Transposon Day , the editorial team at BMC has put together the following quiz for our readers to test their knowledge on TEs and maybe even learn something new! Be sure to shar...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2020/06/16/transposon-day-quiz-2020/

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! Be sure to share your scores o...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2020/04/24/take-dna-day-quiz-2/

At Genome Biology we are as fascinated with plants as the next botanist and over the last couple of months we've seen some excellent plant research publish in the journal. Here, Senior Editor And...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2019/05/20/the-fascination-of-plant-genomes/

At the start of the year, I was thinking about the conferences I attended last year. One highlight was Genome Informatics , which I went to in September, on behalf of Genome Biology.

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2019/02/18/genome-biology-genome-informatics/

Recently published research in Genome Biology identifies several new CRISPR-Cas12a loci, a type of CRISPR-Cas system for editing mammalian genomes. Here, two of the authors of the paper, Wei Li ...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2019/02/08/bigger-crispr-cas12a-toolbox-wider-genomic-coverage-and-higher-targeting-efficiencies/

Genome Biology’s recent special issue on Insights from Genome Editing highlights the valuable insights generated from engineering genomes using a collection of powerful genome editing tools.

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2018/12/07/our-insights-from-engineering-genomes/

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have given us unprecedented insight into heritable traits and diseases. However, because the vast majority of studies have used European cohorts, the result...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2018/11/14/challenges-globalizing-genetic-predictions-health-disease/

Recent research published in Genome Biology finds that whole genome-wide analysis reveals Uralic-speaking populations share a distinct ancestry component. In this blog three of the authors tell ...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2018/10/24/whole-genome-wide-study-reveals-most-uralic-speakers-have-traces-of-recent-common-demographic-history-in-their-genes/

Why do our immune systems get worse as we age? New mouse model research published in Genome Biology explores the hypothesis that altered gene regulation in the precursors of specialized immune c...

https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2018/09/05/aging-and-the-intricacies-of-the-immune-system/