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This Collection highlights content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.

06/27/2022

SOIL SCIENCE

Biomass residues improve soil chemical and biological properties reestablishing native species in an exposed subsoil in Brazilian Cerrado

Investigating recovery of soil chemical properties, Soto Boni and colleagues show that active intervention in reestablishment of aquatic macrophytes combined with sugar cane ash prompted vegetation growth and soil biological activities in a degraded Brazilian Cerrado site.

Image credit: Cerrado sul-mato-grossense by Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, CC BY 2.0

Biomass residues improve soil chemical and biological properties reestablishing native species in an exposed subsoil in Brazilian Cerrado

06/24/2022

Cultural Anthropology

Cultural transmission of traditional songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago

By examining the geographic variation of traditional songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Nishikawa and Ihara explore the cultural evolution of music with a focus on different social contexts.

Image credit: Muzyka Nuty by Frauke Riether, Pixabay License

Cultural transmission of traditional songs in the Ryukyu Archipelago

06/24/2022

Public Health

HBV seroprevalence and liver fibrosis status among population born before national immunization in Southern Thailand: Findings from a health check-up program

Sono and colleagues used data from individuals who attended a health check-up program in Thailand to identify patients with current and past Hepatitis B virus infection who are at risk for hepatocellular carcinoma development and linked them to care.

Image credit: Liver Biology by LJNovaScotia, Pixabay License

HBV seroprevalence and liver fibrosis status among population born before national immunization in Southern Thailand: Findings from a health check-up program

06/22/2022

Climate Science

Climate policy support as a tool to control others’ (but not own) environmental behavior?

Kukowski and colleagues investigate the power of individuals' own self-control and perceptions of others’ cooperation as predictors of climate change mitigation policies.

Image credit: Atmosphere by Tama66, Pixabay License

Climate policy support as a tool to control others’ (but not own) environmental behavior?

06/16/2022

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Protocol entry service expanded to all Lab Protocol authors

We are expanding a service offered to Lab Protocol authors through our partnership with protocols.io: the team at protocols.io will format step-by-step protocols for their platform at no charge and at any stage of the Lab Protocol writing or review process, even prior to submission.

Image credit: Science Experiment by Megan Rexazin, Pixabay License

06/03/2022

Cardiovascular disease

Sleep disturbance after acute coronary syndrome: A longitudinal study over 12 months

von Känel et al. follow 180 patients over 12 months to investigate the association between acute coronary syndrome and sleep disturbances.

Image credit: Mattress by congerdesign, Pixabay

06/03/2022

Social Psychology

Impression Formation Stimuli: A Corpus of Behavior Statements Rated on Morality, Competence, Informativeness, and Believability

Mickelberg and colleagues present a corpus of 160 behavior statements rated on dimensions known to affect impression formation.

Image credit: Mindset by John Hain, Pixabay

06/24/2022

Oncology

Chaperonin Containing TCP1 as a marker for identification of circulating tumor cells in blood

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

Genetics

Single-nucleus RNA-sequencing in pre-cellularization Drosophila melanogaster embryos

Albright and colleagues established the use of single-nucleus RNA-sequencing to understand the regulation of gene expression in the early Drosophila embryo.

Image credit: Fig 1 by Albright et al., CC BY 4.0

06/27/2022

Acoustics

Assessing the ecological validity of soundscape reproduction in different laboratory settings

Tarlao and colleagues show laboratory soundscape studies reproduce findings from on-site studies, and identify how findings differ between the different settings.

Image credit: Squared Circle - Subwoofer by Chris Metcalf, CC BY 2.0

06/24/2022

Socioeconomic aspects of health

Understanding indirect effects between socioeconomic status and stroke severity

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

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Bacterial Antimicrobial Resistance: Surveillance and Prevention Call for Papers
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