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PLOS Blogs Network
In 2009, we launched PLOS Currents as an experimental platform for rapid communication of non-standard publications. A few communities embraced the experiment enthusiastically from the start, and the contributions of researchers who volunteered as editors and reviewers was fantastic.
Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city
Urban ecosystems are expanding around the world as people migrate to cities and the human population continues to grow. What happens to other species as these urban ecosystems expand, and how species live and interact in established urban ecosystems, is the central focus of urban ecology.
PLOS Computational Biology T-Shirt Design Winner Announced
PLOS Computational Biology is pleased to announce the winner of our 2018 t-shirt competition! This year’s t-shirt design was entered by Niklaus J. Grünwald and designed by Zachary S. L. Foster. This will be given away at the ISMB 2018 conference in Chicago. The design was inspired by the research of Grünwald et al. (2017) figure 5, showing metabarcoding data from the human microbiome project study to show pairwise comparisons of microbiome communities in different parts of the human body.
Power to the Preprint
Preprints are here!!! Starting today authors submitting their manuscript to most PLOS journals* can also choose to post their article on bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s preprint server for the life sciences. This is an important development for both PLOS, for bioRxiv, for the authors we serve, and for the life sciences. For PLOS, it enables us to achieve a long-standing aspect of our vision to make research more quickly available to enable discovery and reuse.
Why are healthcare providers scared of exercise?
Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting with a number healthcare providers to discuss the role and importance of exercise for their patients. In those interactions, I’ve noted 2 common themes pop up on a pretty regular basis. They believe that exercise is important for their patients They are not comfortable prescribing exercise themselves, often because they worry that they may harm their patients It’s not hard to understand why healthcare providers would feel that way.
The PLOS ONE Early Career Researcher Travel Awards in the Physical Sciences
Early career researchers (ECRs) are very much at the heart of what we do at PLOS. Last year alone, PLOS ONE published more than 20,000 research papers, undoubtedly with tens of thousands of ECRs as authors. In our experience, many ECRs are aligned with PLOS’ mission and goals towards open science and improving scholarly communications.
Augmented Intelligence in Healthcare: Interview with Arthur Papier
The potential of using machine learning techniques in medicine is immense. As electronic health records have become widely available, there is hope that machine learning will improve diagnosis and care. However, integrating these new methodologies into medical practice is challenging. New methods need to meet healthcare standards, for example around doctor accountability and patient privacy, and must be smoothly integrated into clinical decision-making practices.
Breaking memory circuits with marijuana | PLOS Blogs Network
Paranoia. Munchies. Giggles. Sleepiness. Memory loss. Although the effects of cannabinoids–the active components of marijuana–are familiar to many, their neurobiological substrates are poorly characterized. Perhaps the effect of greatest interest to both neuroscientists and to cannabis users hoping to preserve their cognitive function, is short-term memory impairment that often accompanies marijuana use.
The annual list of lists: Top/best/noteworthy science and medical events of 2016 | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: The annual list of lists: Top/best/noteworthy science and medical events of 2016 Here’s the annual On Science Blogs look back at some of last year’s doings in science and medicine. At least some were encouraging. Still, many believe that 2016 has concluded not a moment too soon, and are finding it hard to summon optimism about what lies ahead in 2017. Cosmos magazine’s science Top Ten is heavy on astronomy and space exploration: gravitational waves, Space X, Planet Nine and more.
Ebola Modeling, Microbial Community Cross-Feeding, and Detecting Concussion: the PLOS Comp Biol December 2016 Issue | PLOS Blogs Network
Check out our highlights from the last PLOS Computational Biology issue of 2016: Infectious disease modelling has become an established tool to inform decisions in infection control. However, for outbreaks that are spread over various adjacent districts or countries, such as the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, few modelling approaches are available that can analyse the spatiotemporal data. To study the epidemic spread within and between districts and countries, Jantien A.
Lessons that Last, and Last, and Last: 400 Pearls and Still Counting | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: Lessons that Last, and Last, and Last: 400 Pearls and Still Counting In conjunction with the publication of the 400th Pearls article, PLOS Pathogens Pearls Editor Joseph Heitman reflects on the continued success of Pearls, an Open Access compendium of the “lessons that last”. There are a number of ways to measure the success of a new editorial series, one of the most important being sustained momentum.
Highlighting notable helminth research and a PLOS Science Weds AMA preview for #WormWeek
To many people, worms are considered harmless creatures, if not a little yucky. But don’t be fooled by their small and innocuous size, some worms are parasitic, and are the cause of substantial disability for billions of people worldwide. Helminths, the technical name for parasitic worms, can cause a specific type of infection that leads to diseases primarily impacting poor individuals living in lower- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
CRISPR Puts Up a Fight Against Persistent Herpesviruses: A Short Animation
Since its development, CRISPR technology has been applied a range of scientific inquiries, spanning from the genomic editing of Florida orange crops to Zebrafish. In work recently published in PLOS Pathogens, Robert Jan Lebbink (University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands) and colleagues demonstrated that CRISPR can be used to limit viral replication in multiple strains of herpesviruses, in some cases even eliminating the infection altogether.
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Source: Health in Flight: Medicine and Migration at the MSF Scientific Days At this year’s annual scientific conference held by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) the dominant theme was clear from the programme cover: the now ubiquitous photograph of a boat packed with refugees.
2-24-16 PLOS Medicine AMA Preview: Looking toward the future of diabetes prevention with Dr. Sanjay Basu
The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is growing globally, with an estimated 38 million people dying from chronic conditions, the majority of whom live in low- and-middle income settings. Diabetes contributes substantially to this burden, with about 410 million people living with diabetes in 2013. Experts project this burden will rise to an estimated 642 million people living with the condition by 2040, if trends continue.
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