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August 5, 2022
08/01/2022
Plant Pathology
Zhai, Davenport, and colleagues demonstrate a protocol for rapid detection of potato mop-top virus, which could offer a cheaper, faster alternative to screen for this damaging potato disease.
Image credit: Solanum tuberosum with Helminthosporium solani by Scot Nelson, CC0
08/01/2022
Biophysics
Himbert and colleagues study the bending of red blood cell membranes using X-ray diffuse scattering, neutron spin echo spectrometry and Molecular Dynamics simulations, in order to constrain values of the membrane bending modulus, κ, which is reported as a large range of values in literature
Image credit: Fig. 3 by Himbert et al., CC BY 4.0
08/01/2022
Learning and Development
Boni and colleagues examine numeracy skills in Tsimane’ children, an indigenous group in the Bolivian Amazon, and find that early counting ability is affected by formal schooling
Image credit: j0aQvd0zIyg by luis arias, Unsplash License
08/02/2022
Psychological Stress
Schote and colleagues report that participants with Hyperhidrosis sweat more in a virtual-stress environment compared to healthy controls, without any difference in endocrine or subjective stress markers
Image credit: sweat-body-fitness-sport-fit-1576382 by Tibor Janosi Mozes, Pixabay License
07/20/2022
EVERYONE BLOG
In this interview, PLOS ONE Associate Editor Katrien Janin speaks to first author Jessica von der Meden about her experiences conducting a study into the link between water availability and human occupation in the southern Kalahari
Image credit: Rosalie Tostevin
06/24/2022
Oncology
Cox and colleagues described the use of Chaperonin-Containing TCP-1 as a marker to detect circulating tumor cells in blood.
Image credit: Blood by Arek Socha, Pixabay License
06/24/2022
Socioeconomic aspects of health
Lindmark and colleagues investigate associations between socioeconomic status and stroke severity in an analysis of the Swedish Stroke Register.
Image credit: Stroke Brain by Gerd Altmann, Pixabay License
08/01/2022
Social Psychology
Curotto and colleagues found that priming participants to think about the future had positive effects on subsequent prosocial behavior in an unrelated task, and that positive thinking about the past and future may elicit prosocial behavior.
Image credit: helping-hands-climbing-rescue-4661809 by Vicki Nunn, Pixabay License
08/01/2022
Cardiovascular Medicine
Choi and colleagues show that exposure to air pollution leads to poorer prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction
Image credit: global-warming-pollution-environment-2958988 by Chris LeBoutillier, Pixabay License
08/01/2022
Computational Biology
Sharif and colleagues present a landscape of the spread, evolution, and genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2.
08/02/2022
Biogeochemistry
Kaštovská and colleagues test how climate change may lead to increased nutrient availability in historically snow-covered soils
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August 14-19, 2022
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