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October 11, 2019
09/25/2019
Cell Biology
Blasius and colleagues use yeast two-hybrid to identify direct interactions between nucleoporins and proteins at the cilium base, contributing to cilium assembly and identity.
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09/19/2019
Physiotherapy
Moseley and colleagues assess the level of agreement between the Cochrane risk of bias tool and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale and suggest that both instruments can be used to quantify risk of bias, but not interchangeably.
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10/01/2019
Virology
The authors describe major protease inhibitor (PI) mutations among patients exposed to at least one PI to predict emergence and impact of subtypes on resistance.
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09/16/2019
climate change
Dietze and colleagues identify historical fire regime shifts in forests in northern Poland using analyses of data from lake sediments.
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09/24/2019
Learning
van Hedger and colleagues present evidence for the learning of absolute pitch outside of the critical period.
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09/26/2019
Archaeology
Moncel and colleagues assess early hominid cutting tools in light of a revised chronology to investigate technology use and culture in Pleistocene Western Europe.
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09/26/2019
EVERYONE
PLOS ONE introduces new Statistical Reporting Guidelines to provide general principles that authors should consider in order to provide enough detail for another researcher to reproduce the study.
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09/26/2019
Plant Science
Lee and colleagues use an Arabidopsis thaliana model to modulate transcriptional activity and epigenetic status of specific target genes in plants.
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10/02/2019
Sport and exercise science
Condello and colleagues investigate the dual career phenomenon (combination of sport and higher education careers) in an international student-athlete population.
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09/30/2019
Obstetrics
The authors identified previously unobserved pathways, and present a method for a global assessment of a clinical problem for further study of possible causes.
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09/25/2019
Digital Health
Liu and colleagues report a method to measure sleep quality by gait analysis, using a supervised machine learning regression approach.
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