PLoS ONE recently published articlesIn this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s may be beneficital, beer makes people attractive to malarial mosquitoes, declining death rates from cancer, a new fossil crocodile, and more.
The Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated Amyloid β-Protein Is an Antimicrobial Peptide by Soscia et al, was covered by New York Times Health Feed, Business Week, Suite101, [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: waist-to-hip ratio drives men crazy, Patron Saint relics not what they are said to be, magnets in birds’ beaks, marine protection areas protect corals, man-eating extinct crocodyle, smart but no so insightful crows, antioxidants in swallows.
The title of this post is really a mis-nomer – this should be [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: feathered dinosaurs, living next to highways is bad for your blood vessels, removing badgers does not remove cattle tuberculosis, and bats can drink and fly.
The Extent of the Preserved Feathers on the Four-Winged Dinosaur Microraptor gui under Ultraviolet Light by David Hone, Helmut Tischlinger, Xing Xu and Fucheng [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: malaria vaccine boosts immunity in kids, invasion of Thoreau’s Woods, bees with keen sense of smell and more.
Article Safety and Immunogenicity of an AMA1 Malaria Vaccine in Malian Children: Results of a Phase 1 Randomized Controlled Trial by Mahamadou A. Thera and collaborators reports on a clinical trial [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: mapping change in large networks, speed gene in racehorses, Yasuni National Park in Ecuador, smelling cancer in urine, and much more.
Martin Rosvall of Umeå University in Sweden and Carl Bergstrom of the University of Washington devised a new mathematical technique using citations of publications as data to map [...]
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As we are now more than half-way through January, this blog is long overdue for a PLoS ONE media update. Here’s a round-up of some of the news and blog coverage of PLoS ONE articles over the past few weeks.
At the end of 2009, PLoS ONE published a paper by Jeffrey Ross-Ibara and colleagues in [...]
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As we start 2010 in earnest, we felt it was high time to round-up some of the papers published in PLoS ONE last year that made it into various lists of the best—and quirkiest—research of the year; not to mention the biggest, oldest and cleverest discoveries. A number of these studies were also covered in [...]
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Pete has already rounded up some of the many exciting events in the PLoS ONE year in his Review of 2009, but there were so many new developments that we needed a separate post to summarise some of our news and blog coverage in 2009.
You can read more about PLoS ONE papers in the news [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: orphanages and the quality of care of young children, an investigation on the remains in the Tomb of the Shroud, first glimpses at memory in real time, and much more.
Caring for the hundreds of millions of orphans and abandoned children (OAC) worldwide is becoming an increasing challenge for [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: many Canadian HIV-positive women hope for pregnancy; are stem cells key to the fight against HIV?; decoding the calls of Campbell’s monkeys, and much more.
In their article published in PLoS ONE on Monday, Mona Loutfy and colleagues report the findings of their study, which aimed to understand desire [...]
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This week in the PLoS ONE news and blog round-up: coral reefs strike back, scaling up our understanding of musical scales, the physical characteristics that make us look our age, and much more.
In a recent PLoS ONE article, Ruth Reef and colleagues report a new defensive role for coral skeletons. The researchers examine the ability [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest: America’s growing waists—and waste; the strong-arm tactics of raptors; biological tools of the traders; and much more.
The day before the turkey was roasted and the cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday, Kevin Hall and colleagues published a paper in PLoS ONE, which reported that [...]
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In the latest PLoS ONE media round-up: the orientation of Greek temples, a DNA study reveals the dark side of the sushi menu, why bird flu hasn’t yet caused a pandemic, and much more.
Whether ancient Greek temples were built to face the sunrise in the east is a much debated topic. In a new study [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media digest, we answer the following questions and discuss other recent news and blog coverage of PLoS ONE research: Were dinosaurs born to run? Is amphibians’ sensitivity to environmental contaminants skin deep? How do foreign—but not native-language—subtitles in films boost language learning?
The question of whether dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded) like [...]
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In this week’s PLoS ONE media coverage digest, we highlight recent research on birds, bears, bats, buses, and much more besides.
Last Wednesday was a good day for PLoS ONE articles, with several papers published on October 28th being picked up by journalists and bloggers. As ever, ecology proved to be a popular topic. In their [...]
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