The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for their discovery of Hepatitis C virus. In celebration of what they started and showcasing areas of research that have since emerged, we here present a collection of articles from the BMC Biology, BMC Medicine, Genome Medicine and the BMC Series Journals on biology, diagnosis and treatment and wider public health and medical outcomes of the Hepatitis C virus and its infection.
BMC Biotechnology and BMC Plant Biology together present the latest collection of articles on the advances in genome editing technologies and applications.
BMC Biotechnology and BMC Cancer together present the latest collection of articles on the advances in CAR-T immunotherapy covering the entire range of advances from lab to clinic.
In preparation for Earth Day on 22nd April, the BMC Series presents a focus issue on Our Changing Environment, highlighting research from across the journals on climate change, conservation, pollution, and the impact of environmental changes on human health and disease.
With the 28th of February marking World Rare Diseases day, the BMC Series this month looks at highlighting research on the Rare diseases that together affect around 10% of the population. Read the full collection of articles here.
In this article the authors demonstrate a new lentivirus-driven method for genome editing of Salmon cells. Read the full article here.
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Applied immunology
Cellular, tissue and whole organism biotechnology
Drug discovery and delivery
Environmental biotechnology
Food and nutritional biotechnology
Genetic engineering
Mathematical modeling and statistics in biology
Methods and technological advances in biotechnology
Microbial biotechnology
Plant and agricultural biotechnology
Systems and synthetic biology
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