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April 29, 2022
04/21/2022
Cell biology
Leki et al. utilized new cell lines to efficiently express olfactory receptors showing low/not detectable expression in conventional cell systems.
Image credit: Fig 5 by Leki et al., CC BY 4.0
04/19/2022
Climate Change
Abdullahi and colleagues use deep learning methods to predict daily diarrhoea cases in South Africa based on climate variables, identifying which variables are the most influential.
Image credit: Roll of toilet paper by Chiara Coetzee, CC0 1.0
04/20/2022
Archaeology
Using the Random Forest machine learning algorithm, Miera and colleagues modeled the main trends of Neolithic settlements in Central Germany.
Image credit: Fig 3 by Miera et al., CC BY 4.0
04/26/2022
Public Health and Epidemiology
Berke and colleagues use mobile phone data to measure dynamic population mobility, and combine this with COVID-19 serology testing data to build models to better understand pandemic progression.
Image credit: GPS Locator by MashiroMomo, Pixabay License
04/25/2022
everyone blog
PLOS ONE has published a Lab Protocols Collection showcasing a set of peer-reviewed lab protocols across our broad scope. We interviewed Academics Editors and reviewers from the community, in order to learn more about the importance of lab protocols in their field and their thoughts on the benefits of this article type for open science.
Image credit: Megan Rexazin, Pixabay License
04/20/2022
everyone blog
We chat with Ben Brown, Associate Professor of Psychology at Georgia Gwinnett College about his research interests in developmental psychology, his editorial experience for the collection, and his passion for open science.
Image credit: "Cultured Rat Hippocampal Neuron" by ZEISS Microscopy
04/22/2022
latitude blog
To mark this year’s Earth Day, we’ve selected articles recently featured in PLOS’s new, multidisciplinary environmental journals to showcase the diverse nature of the research we publish. These articles highlight the wide-ranging impacts of human activity on global ecology, climatology, and natural resources, and emphasize the urgency of concerted and equitable action to protect the world’s ecosystems, climate and people.
Image credit: jplenio on Pixabay
04/20/2022
Economics
Tang et al. investigated the link between COVID-19 unemployment and social vulnerability and found that the unemployment gap between the most and least socially vulnerable widened.
Image credit: Keyboard by niekverlaan, Pixabay License
04/21/2022
Cardiovascular science and medicine
Johansson and colleagues measure participant physical activity and show that physical activity during work hours is associated with an increase in systolic blood pressure.
Image credit: Businessman by Peggy_Marco, Pixabay License
04/20/2022
Entomology
Allen and colleagues detect an entomopathogenic fungus that threatens one of the rarest critically endangered insects on Earth.
Image credit: "Mount Litchbird Lord Howe Island" by patchtok
04/19/2022
Polymer materials
Molina and colleagues present a scalable technique for distributed production of PPE materials from plastic waste in situations of disrupted supply chains.
Image credit: Making cotton candy by chispita_666, CC BY 2.0
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