10/12/2016
Primer
Fair-weather friends? This Primer by elizabeth Pringle discusses recent research showing that organisms can go from mutualists to competitors and back again, depending on whether there is resource stress or surplus in the environment.
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10/13/2016
Open Highlights
How do the sexes compensate for having different chromosome complements? This Open Highlight by Lauren Richardson assesses recent insights into the complex and diverse solutions that living things have found to this widespread gene dosage problem.
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10/11/2016
Primer
Reticular cell networks are the "road systems" of lymphoid tissue. This Primer by Johannes Textor, Judith Mandl and Rob de Boer discusses a recent study which shows that these networks remain functional even when half of the cells are destroyed.
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10/04/2016
Research Article
Sylvain Alem, Clint Perry, Lars Chittka and co-workers show that bumblebees can be trained to pull strings to obtain a reward, can learn to string-pull through observation, and can culturally spread string-pulling throughout a colony.
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10/03/2016
Essay
The bacterial domain displays a spectacular diversity of cellular shape. This Essay by David Kysela, Amelia Randich, Paul Caccamo and Yves Brun explores our surprisingly limited understanding as to how and why these shapes have evolved and discusses ways in which this dearth of knowledge can be addressed.
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10/05/2016
Research Article
A novel metapopulation model of HIV developed by Katrina Lythgoe, François Blanquart, Lorenzo Pellis and Christophe Fraser suggests that within-host infections are characterized by a highly dynamic process of localized infection followed by clearance within T cell centers.
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09/29/2016
Research Article
Feeding spermidine to Drosophila protects them from age-dependent memory impairment by suppressing structural and functional alterations in presynaptic performance.
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09/29/2016
Research Article
A comparative study draws a connection between the gene expression alterations in autism and molecular features of cortical development that are unique to humans.
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09/29/2016
research matters
Bernd Groner and Nancy Hynes explore the research that has led to increased survival of breast cancer patients and ask whether the future holds even more advances.
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09/30/2016
PLOs biologue
To mark UK Fungus Day on October 9th, Lauren Richardson looks at recent open access research on this diverse kingdom, ranging from virulent pathogens to essential symbiotic partners.
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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.
The distinction is created by simple differences in cell division. Read more in the Synopsis.
The decision of female fruit flies to mate depends on specific neuron clusters in three brain regions.
Found to independently contribute to our overall experience of pain, and can be separately modulated by noxious input and by cognitive self-regulation. Read more in the Primer.
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fMRI studies of rhesus macaques allow dissection of the neural correlates of social status. Read more in the Primer.
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