Published in Neuropsychobiology
Background: The results of studies examining the response to experimental pain during the menstrual cycle are conflicting because of differences in the definitions of the menstrual period, outcome measures and types of experimental pain stimulation. So far, there have been only a few studies correlating experimental pain with the levels of gonadal ...
Published in PLoS Biology
In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, this Community Page article discusses the projects, pitfalls and possibilities regarding open source personal protective equipment, ventilators and diagnostics.
Published in PLoS Biology
Cryo-EM structures of transcription activation complexes comprising cyclic AMP receptor protein (CAP) bound to a class-II promoter reveal two distinct architectures and suggest a possibility that CAP activates transcription by inducing an intermediate state, an important supplement to the previously proposed stabilization mechanism.
Published in PLoS Biology
As biodiversity loss continues to accelerate, there is a critical need for education and biomonitoring across the globe. This Community Page article presents step-by-step protocols as a blueprint for a terrestrial conservation genetics training program that uses low-cost, portable devices to conduct genomics-based training directly in the field.
Published in PLoS Biology
Across 14 years, 581 events, and reaching 70,000 audience members, the Duke Chemistry Outreach program has engaged the surrounding community through fun scientific demonstrations. This Community Page article provides examples and guidelines to encourage others to establish similar programs.
Published in PLoS Biology
Have you ever sought to use metagenomic DNA sequences reported in scientific publications? Were you successful? This Essay reveals that every fifth published metagenome is not available to science, and asks whether data accessibility should be considered a mandatory component of manuscript submission.
Published in PLoS Biology
This Essay proposes that a new theory of cancer — the “tissue organization field” theory — explains phenomena (such as the normalization of cancer cells) that are not consistent with the widely held somatic mutation theory.
Published in PLoS Biology
Published in PLoS Biology
This Community Page article describes Youth Science Workshops (YSWs) - a novel science education outreach event in which graduate students from different disciplines communicate their research to young students. Assessment of the outcomes suggest that this workshop benefits all the participants, increasing science interest for students and improvin...
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Vocal learning is the capacity to modify vocal output on the basis of experience, crucial for human speech and several animal communication systems. This Essay maintains that the existing evidence supports a more nuanced view of this phenotype, broadening the set of species, behaviors, and factors that can help us understand it.
