01/11/2017
unsolved mystery
This Essay by Taylor Dick and Christofer Clemente proposes that animals have a limited number of biomechanical strategies to reduce musculoskeletal stress; this fact probably constrained the locomotor speeds of extinct giant animals.
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Current Issue December 2016
01/12/2017
research article
By tracking personal activities and physiology, Xiao Li, Jessilyn Dunn, Denis Salins, Michael Snyder and co-workers show that wearable biosensors can provide information useful in managing human health.
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01/12/2017
Research Article
Using neuroimaging and computational modelling, this study by Raphael Kaplan, Karl Friston and colleagues explains how the human brain represents initial versus subsequent choices during spatial planning in novel environments.
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01/13/2017
research article
Lisa Genzel, Richard Morris and colleagues show that hippocampal memory traces followed by novelty are more dominant by default but are liable to interference; by contrast, sleep engages a lasting stabilization of cortical traces and consequent trace dominance after pre-exposure.
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01/09/2017
open highlights
Bees are amazing little creatures; while some of them live solitary lifestyles, many bee species form large colonies and function as a superorganism. Lauren Richardson discusses some of the recent advances in our understanding of these fascinating insects.
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01/12/2017
perspective
Bethny Morrissey, Valerie Speirs and co-authors make an economic, ethical and academic case for SEARCH; an innovative approach towards making precious surplus material derived from animal studies in biomedical research more visible and accessible to the scientific community.
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01/05/2017
research article
Scaling up no-take marine reserve coverage to 20-30% of fished habitat should benefit both biodiversity and fisheries where they are most threatened.
Image credit: Flickr user Lakshmi Sawitri
01/06/2017
research article
The soluble interleukin-6 receptor is generated in humans by proteolysis, a process that is controlled by a single N-glycosylation site within its extracellular domain.
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01/06/2017
community page
This Community Page article presents a webcast of bird nesting as an example of a state-of-the-art Citizen Science project with educational, scientific and popularizing benefits.
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12/22/2016
PLOS Biologue
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In this Collection, we feature PLOS articles that focus on the prevention of diabetes.
Global norovirus experts fill critical knowledge gaps and provide key information to further development of a much-needed vaccine.
A number of leading global health experts chart the path to a dramatic reduction in the global burden of disease by 2035.
Featuring articles that aim to improve the standards, reproducibility, and evaluation of scientific research.
This Slice of PLOS highlights research from across the PLOS journals on how mesocosms are used to investigate climate change.
How do the sexes compensate for having different chromosome complements?
Recent research investigating the neurodevelopmental origins of autism spectrum disorder.
Adverse effects of man-made chemicals on the development of the human reproductive system.
How do living things interact with the Earth’s magnetic field and use it for orientation and navigation?
The complex relationship between host and pathogen during the course of an infection.
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