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09/18/2018
Neuroscience
Furotani and colleagues knock down yata gene expression to inhibit synaptic localization of APP and rescue an Alheimer's disease phenotype in Drosophila.
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09/25/2018
Soil Science
Rosenberg and colleagues present a hand-held device to help farmers in developing countries with soil testing and fertilizer advice.
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09/20/2018
Sport AND Exercise Science
As a proof-of-concept, Rieth and colleagues show the exercise-induced hemodynamic effects of sildenafil in connective tissue disease patients without pulmonary arterial hypertension.
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09/26/2018
Community Ecology
Pereira and colleagues show deep reefs have greater fish abundance and diversity than shallow reefs, and may help protect species from disturbances.
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09/07/2018
Channel
The Open Source Toolkit features articles and online projects describing hardware and software that can be used in a research and/or science education setting across different fields, from basic to applied research. The Channel editors aim to showcase how open source tools can lead to innovation, democratisation and increased reproducibility.
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09/10/2018
COLLECTION
Women remain underrepresented at higher academic ranks and in the peer-review process and exhibit higher rates of attrition from STEM degrees and careers. The articles in this collection consider factors associated with the inclusion and success of women in STEM fields and propose ways to reduce the gender gap.
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09/07/2018
EveryONE
In this EveryONE blog we discuss a recent study by Larisa DeSantis which involved students from her course on Paleoecological Methods. The study looks at tooth wear across two species of kangaroo and one species of koala.
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09/26/2018
Psychology
Caspar and colleagues investigate the effects of giving and receiving orders on feelings of agency and responsibility.
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09/27/2018
PLANT SCIENCES
Kang and colleagues investigate how leaf surface morphology and wettability changes through the seasons, showing that fall brown leaves support far greater water volumes than summer leaves.
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09/12/2018
Conservation
Combining ecological approaches with participatory rural appraisal, Benitez-Capistros and colleagues investigate ecological and social variables in an emergent conservation conflict.
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09/20/2018
Cardiovascular Medicine
In this genetic study of Finnish families, Vanninen and colleagues found that a variant of Junctophilin-2 has a causative role in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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Stable carbon isotope analysis of fatty acide residues from ancient Mediterranean pottery suggests cheese production as early as 7,200 years ago.
McIntosh and colleagues find from the 2013 census that Australian fur seal pups are declining.
Murillo-Barroso and colleagues investigate the distribution and circulation of amber throughout the prehistoric Iberian peninsular.
Mattern and co-workers used satellite trackers to investigate the routes taken by New Zealand's only crested penguin.
Bertin and colleagues investigate visual communication in blue-and-yellow macaws.
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