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July 23, 2021
07/16/2021
Health inequities
Mezuk and co-workers analyse narrative text data from the most comprehensive registry of mortality in the United States of America, showing that the length of narratives varied based age, gender, education and ethnic groups of decedents.
Image credit: Fig 2 by Mezuk et al., CC BY 4.0
07/15/2021
Drug Discovery
Using a combination of high-throughput screens and kinome profiling, Chang and colleagues identify potential therapeutics for the treatment of neurofibromatosis type 2 related malignancies.
Image credit: Fig 5 by Chang et al., CC BY 4.0
07/12/2021
Paleontology
Funston and colleagues present evidence for uniting two sympatric dinosaur species.
Image credit: Fig 8 by Funston et al., CC BY 4.0
07/21/2021
climate change
Richards and Hunter explore causes of the collapse of northern shrimp populations in the Gulf of Maine in 2012 and hypothesize that warmer temperatures led to a peak of shrimp predators.
Image credit: Woda-6 ubt by Tomasz Sienicki, CC BY 2.5
07/14/2021
latitude (plos BLOG for environmental studies)
PLOS Climate Editorial Board member and climate researcher Liqiang Xu discusses the challenges facing coral reefs under a changing global climate.
Image credit: Lubin Wu
06/29/2021
Womens health
Maternal mortality is an indicator of the health status and appropriateness of healthcare services. MacDorman and colleagues examines age related risk factors of maternal mortality in the US.
Image credit: Pregnant Woman by Pexels, Pixabay License
06/25/2021
Urban studies
Ramos and Uitermark collate data on socio-economic development and amenities for 86 cities to build an open-source database of urban inequality.
07/06/2021
Bioinformatics
Dunbrack and colleagues developed a webserver to fix the inconsistent numbering problem for protein sequences in Protein Data Bank.
07/14/2021
Biotechnology
Suner and colleagues utilize smartphone technology to develop a novel method of predicting hemoglobin concentrations and screening for anemia.
Image credit: Red Blood Cells by Rob Pongsajapan, CC BY 2.0
07/14/2021
Neuroscience
Mazzoli and colleagues investigate the effects of cognitively engaging breaks on the hemodynamic response of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, response inhibition, lapses of attention, and working memory.
Image credit: Image by Wokandapix, Pixabay License
07/16/2021
Public Health
Khan and colleagues use public health data and spatial analysis to investigate geographic disparities in diabetes prevalence in Florida.
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