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July 10, 2020
03/19/2020
PLOS COLLECTION
This Collection of articles highlights all content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19/SARS-Coronavirus-2 pandemic in 2019-20. PLOS is committed to disseminating research as quickly as possible, particularly in public health emergencies
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06/25/2020
GENDER EQUALITY
Bloodhart and colleagues show that women outperform men in both physical and life science courses, whilst men are perceived as equal or better students.
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06/23/2020
Machine learning
Sevillano and colleagues develop a machine learning method to classify different types of pollen. Their method shows a high accuracy on the test images, and can classify pollen types previously thought to be indistinguishable.
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07/02/2020
Cancer
Uesato and colleagues assess the prognostic value of circulating tumor DNA for patients who have pancreatic cancer with liver metastasis. The authors find that circulating tumor DNA could be used as an independent prognostic marker for advanced pancreatic cancer.
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06/26/2020
Public Health
Lan and colleagues analyse the association between initial symptoms and RT-PCR test results in a retrospective study on healthcare workers.
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06/29/2020
zoology
Tomita and colleagues document unique dermal denticles as protection mechanism for the protuding eyes of whale sharks.
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06/05/2020
Public Health
Doshi and colleagues highlight the challenges service providers face in supporting access to health and social care for undocumented Latinx migrants in the United States.
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07/08/2020
Neuroscience
Using modified versions of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’, Kim and colleagues report that significant modification of this melody increases connectivity between the left inferior frontal gyri to the right Heschl’s gyri.
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07/02/2020
Spectroscopy
Zhang and colleagues show that Raman spectroscopy can be utilised to distinguish between extracellular vesicles from bovine placenta and peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
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07/02/2020
Antimicrobials
Moussa and Aparicio use multiphoton deep bioimaging to assess how long-acting amphipathic antimicrobial peptide coatings affect the microbiome of a model filled cavity-composite interface.
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06/30/2020
Structural Biology
Jones and colleagues provide solid structural evidence to support the molecular basis of increased thermostability, catalytic activity and promiscuity of an ancestral hydroxynitrile lyase.
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To be considered for this Collection, articles must be submitted by September 24, 2020.
To be considered for this Collection, articles must be submitted by September 4, 2020.
To be considered for this Collection, articles must be submitted by July 13, 2020.
To be considered for this Collection, papers must be submitted before July 31, 2020.
To be considered for this Collection, papers must be submitted before September 4, 2020.
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