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February 25, 2022
02/17/2022
Sport Science
Stacey and colleagues examine whether changes in brain and kidney blood biomarkers for indications of end-organ damage could discriminate human Exertional Heat Illness in marathon runners.
Image credit: Jogging by kinkate, Pixabay License
02/16/2022
Plant Biology
Morón-García, Garzón-Martínez, and colleagues study regions of DNA associated with controlling rosette morphology in the model plant species, Arabidopsis thaliania.
Image credit: Fig 2 by Morón-García et al., CC BY 4.0
02/23/2022
Environmental Science
Aljandal and colleagues demonstrate the importance of the concentrations of both oil and dispersant in considering the design and interpretation of results for oil spill simulation experiments.
Image credit: Surveying Oiled Sargassum/a> by NOAA's National Ocean Service, CC BY 2.0
02/16/2022
meta-research
This large survey by Gopalakrishna and colleagues revealed the prevalence of research misconduct and questionable research practices, and suggests that curbing publication pressure, strengthening reviewers, and greater emphasis on scientific norm subscription would promote research integrity.
Image credit: Pinokio by kaosnoff, Pixabay License
02/25/2022
Everyone blog
PLOS ONE has an open Call for Papers on Physical Oceanography, for which selected publications will be showcased in a special collection. Here, we chat with some of the Guest Editors to learn more about their research and how advances in this field can provide a better understanding of future environmental change.
Image credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video
02/03/2022
Everyone blog
To celebrate World Cancer Day 2022, we are highlighting some of our favorite articles on this year’s theme, “Close the Care Gap”. Our Call for Papers on Cancer and Social Inequity also spotlights this topic, and is open for submission until March 8th.
Image credit: markhillary
02/22/2022
PLOS OFficial blog
In this piece, Senior Editor & Manager of the PLOS Publication Ethics Team Renee Hoch addresses frequent questions and concerns around publication ethics and talks about the importance of this critical aspect of scientific publishing.
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02/17/2022
Ecology
Thornley and Newman develop a mechanistic deterministic mathematical model for the dynamics of the green spruce aphid growing on Sitka spruce.
Image credit: Green Norway Spruce tree tops onto clear blue sky by Horia Varlan, CC BY 2.0
02/16/2022
Psychology
Benthem de Grave and colleagues modeled the causal relationship between work stress and disease to reproduce findings on fluctuations in cortisol levels and on cardiovascular disease, and predict new results on the role of workweek configurations.
Image credit: Stres Ludzie Biznesu Biznesmen by geralt, Pixabay License
02/16/2022
Womens Health
Kunaseth and colleagues compared the vaginal bacterial microbiome profile in the reproductive tract of women living with, and without adenomyosis.
Image credit: Bakterie Koli by geralt, Pixabay License
02/17/2022
Structural Biology
Smith and colleagues reported two cryo-EM structures of full-length POT1 (protection of telomeres protein 1) complexes, revealing conformation flexibility in DNA binding pf POT1 that may have important implications for telomere protection.
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To be considered for this call, papers must be submitted by March 15th, 2022.
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