Each year the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) organizes an international Open Access (OA) awareness campaign. During this week-long event, taking place worldwide from 23rd to 29th of October, institutions around the globe host local talks, discussions, panels in an effort to spread awareness and support OA within their scientific communities. This year’s […]

The human genome contains only about 20,000 protein-coding genes, however the extent of non-protein-coding DNA increases with increasing developmental and cognitive complexity. These sequences are transcribed to produce small and large non-protein-coding RNAs that guide chromatin-modifying complexes to their sites of action and thereby modulate chromatin structure and gene expression, to specify the architectural trajectories […]

We are pleased to announce the Featured Journal of this Month—Nutrients. Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643; CODEN: NUTRHU) is an open-access journal of human nutrition published monthly online by MDPI, in collaboration with The Nutrition Society of New Zealand, Australasian Section—American Oil Chemists Society (AAOCS), and Asia Pacific Nutrigenomics Nutrigenetics Organisation (APNNO). Since it was founded in […]

Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050, IF 1.789) is an international, cross-disciplinary, open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. Sustainability provides an advanced forum for studies related to sustainability and sustainable development, and is published monthly online by MDPI. The aim of the journal is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental […]

We are pleased to announce the Featured Journal of this Month, Genes. Genes is an open access journal of genetics and genomics published monthly online by MDPI. Since it was launched in 2010, 8 volumes have been published, comprising 642 articles that provide advanced insights into studies related to genes, genetics and genomics. The current Impact […]

One of the most unexpected and fascinating discoveries in oncology over the past decade has been the interplay between abnormalities in protein-coding genes and non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), which are causally involved in cancer initiation, progression, and dissemination. Although, to date, the most studied non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are microRNAs (miRNAs), the importance of long non-coding RNAs […]