Crowdsourcing plant phenomic data, bacterial niche construction abilities, protocell evolution, microRNA target prediction

  Crowdsourcing plant phenomic data, bacterial niche construction abilities, protocell evolution, microRNA target prediction Posted August 13, 2018 by post-info Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the July issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Crowdsourcing image analysis

Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city

  Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city   post-info Urban ecosystems are expanding around the world as people migrate to cities and the human population continues to grow. What happens to other species

After Gene Therapy: Hannah’s Journey Continues

0000-0002-8715-2896Source: After Gene Therapy: Hannah’s Journey Continues Thirteen-year-old Hannah Sames looked beautiful two weeks ago at the annual Hannah’s Hope Fund gala near her hometown and mine. She’d put on 15 pounds since her gene therapy for

Meri Asha: Kiran Di and the ASHAs of Nanakpur

asha2-150x1500000-0002-8715-2896Source: Meri Asha: Kiran Di and the ASHAs of Nanakpur Varshini Cherukupalli and Manisha Bhatia are third-year medical students at Northwestern University and Texas Tech University. Here they share their perspectives working for the last

The Future of Diabetes Prevention: A Call for Papers

Blood-Drop-2-690x320AddThis Sharing Buttons above The PLOS Medicine Editors announce a summer Special Issue on Diabetes Prevention to be guest edited by Prof. Nick Wareham and Prof. William Herman. Submissions are now being accepted ahead of

Hannah’s 2016: From Curling Toes to Gene Therapy

CaptureEleven-year-old Hannah Sames can still curl her toes, just barely. But time is running out. If Hannah can move her toes for a few more weeks, until she becomes the fourth child in a clinical

Vampire Giraffe Deer Beasts: What Are Palaeomerycids, Exactly?

If you eat red meat, you’ve probably eaten a ruminant. This group of hoofed mammals includes our domesticated cattle and sheep, as well as deer, giraffes, pronghorn, and more. As a whole, ruminants are best known