BMC Biology

Cryo-EM: blob-ology and biology

In an interview, Helen Saibil walks us through the past, present and future of cryo-electron microscopy; insights and challenges

In the Light of Evolution

Our new series has officially launched and is accepting submissions! Read the Reviews, Q&As and more here

An olfactory channel with dual specificity for sex and food

In a research article, Peter Witzgall and colleagues study the role of an olfactory channel that they discovered - with dual affinity to sex and food odorant - in long-range communication in Drosophila

Keeping the replication fork moving

A role for the PCNA/RFC complex in resolving stalled replication forks, through its cooperation with Mus81-Mms4 nuclease.

Collections’ Highlights

From our “In the Light of Evolution” series – a Review from Lucía Franchini and Katherine Pollard on genomic insights into human uniqueness

Featured Review

How driving endonuclease genes can be used to combat pests and disease vectors

H. Charles J. Godfray, Ace North and Austin Burt

Published on: 11 September 2017

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In response to widespread frustration with delays to publication through iterative reviewing, we operate a re-review opt out policy whereby authors can choose whether reviewers see their revisions (see our Editorial: Q&A: Re-review opt-out and painless publishing). For those papers that we cannot publish, a broad portfolio of subject-specific sister journals and portable peer review policy allows us to help authors find the right journal for their papers with a minimum of delay.