10/02/2018
Short Report
Rachel Sherrard, Natalie Morellini, Margaret Ahmad and colleagues show that weak repetitive magnetic field stimulation induces the production of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in human cells through the action of cryptochromes, receptors implicated in magnetosensing. Read the accompanying Primer by Lukas Landler and David Keays.
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Current Issue September 2018
10/04/2018
Perspective
Paul Wolff Mitchell discusses how the re-discovery of lost skull measurement data after 180 years re-open a longstanding discussion about the origins of scientific racism in America and the role of bias in science.
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10/03/2018
Research article
Bacteriophages can be useful antibacterial agents. Rosanna Wright, Michael Brockhurst and co-workers show that bacterial resistance to a focal phage can provide cross-resistance to unrelated phages that bind the same host receptor, and that this cross-resistance predicts how well combinations of phage will supress bacterial growth.
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10/02/2018
essay
Frédéric Thomas, Joel Brown, Robert Gatenby, Beata Ujvari and co-authors suggest that the pragmatic strategies employed in adaptive therapy may also be employed naturally by multicellular organisms to deal with the inevitable development of malignant cells during growth and maintenance of normal tissue.
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10/02/2018
perspective
Christi Guerrini, Amy McGuire and co-authors present survey data which suggest that the public may not be particularly concerned about police access to personal genetic data that populate genealogical databases when the purpose is considered justified.
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10/05/2018
community page
Brands move with you, and the world (and especially America) needs brand name scientists; Peter Hotez discusses the why, how (and how not) of cultivating your own personal brand as a scientist.
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10/04/2018
open highlights
In this Open Highlight, PLOS Biology editor Lauren Richardson explores exciting new Open Access research into how species evolve their characteristic traits.
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09/26/2018
RESEARCH ARTICLE
The crucial interaction between developing sperm and somatic Sertoli cells is regulated by an F-actin meshwork and actomyosin bundles in Sertoli cells.
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09/27/2018
research article
Clonal and proliferation analyses performed in vivo explain the developmental rules through which the different types of astrocytes are generated in the cerebellum.
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09/26/2018
SHORT REPORTS
During Pavlovian conditioning, simply lengthening the time between trials to allow for additional value revision increases both attractiveness of stimuli and prediction error signals.
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Norman Pace remembers the early days of what became known as "metagenomics," as experienced by the author during his development as a scientist.
Rodrigo Almeida argues that considering the social context of emerging plant diseases and effective science communication are essential for the management epidemics.
Oswald Schmitz suggests that studying how species produce ecological functions can be like watching jazz musicians improvise as they respond and adapt to one another to create their music.
Meta-research may not be as click-worthy as a meta-pug – a pug dog dressed up in a pug costume – but it is crucial to understanding research, says Lisa Bero in this Research Matters article.
John Ioannidis explores the study of research itself: its methods, reporting, reproducibility, evaluation, and incentives.
How resistance arises at the cellular level, how it evolves and spreads, and how we can combat it.
How animals combine information from the outside world and from within their own bodies to decide what they should eat.
How the engulfment of a small bacterium by a larger archaeon more than a billion years ago resulted not in death, but in one of the most successful partnerships on earth.
The composition and function of microbiomes are critical for most animals and plants; how do relationships between hosts and microbes evolve over time?
Medics have long recognised the curious power of the placebo. What is known of its biological basis and the complex ethical and practical issues that surround it?
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