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February 21, 2020
02/13/2020
neuroscience
Varley and colleagues use fMRI scanning to compare healthy participants, patients in a minimally conscious state, and patients in a vegetative state and find that complexity of neural connectivity networks is related to levels of consciousness.
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02/12/2020
breastfeeding
Berger and colleagues found frequent breastfeeding by Hispanic mothers at 1 month increased infant cognitive development at 24 months through greater exposure to 2’FL, but effect disappears by 6 months.
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02/05/2020
organic chemistry
da Silva Mesquita and colleagues synthesise and charactise novel fluorinated neonicotinoids, assessing their binding to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and demonstrating they have high larvicidal activity against Anopheles mosquito larvae.
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02/07/2020
Ecology
Ainsworth and Drake classify plant species by degree of habitat specialisation, to identify species to prioritise in conservation efforts.
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02/05/2020
Global health
Noemí López-Ejeda and colleagues investigate the benefits of proximity in community health treatment of severe acute malnutrition.
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02/05/2020
Public Health
Marchant and colleagues investigate teachers' and pupils' perceptions of The Daily Mile, a teacher-led program designed to increase physical activity at schools.
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02/20/2020
Everyone
Mathematical approaches have significantly shaped research on disease and evolving epidemics across the globe by providing real-time decision support. In this blog we introduce the joint collection with PLOS Biology and PLOS Computational Biology which highlights recently published research in this area.
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02/13/2020
health care
Largent and colleagues find that participants being told they have biomarkers related to Alzheimer's interpret this as having implications for their identity and social interactions.
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02/12/2020
complex networks
Wills and Meyer compare commonly used graph metrics and distance measures, and demonstrate their ability to discern between common topological features in random graph models and real world networks.
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02/13/2020
Research Article
Amin and co interviewed clinicians to develop a communication tool for talking to patients about fasting and health during Ramadan.
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02/03/2020
Developmental Biology
Belzunce and colleagues investigate the atoh1 gene regulatory network during the specification of cells in the Lower Rhombic Lip structure.
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