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03 Sep 2015

Most viewed Immunology articles in August 2015

Immune tolerance maintained by cooperative interactions between T cells and antigen presenting cells shapes a diverse TCR repertoire Katharine Best, Benny Chain* and Chris Watkins A microbial feed additive abates intestinal inflammation in Atlantic salmon Ghana Vasanth, Viswanath Kiron*, Amod Kulkarni, Dalia Dahle, Jep Lokesh and Yoichiro Kitani Differential expression of microRNAs in thymic epithelial cells from Trypanosoma cruzi acutely-infected mice: putative role in thymic atrophy Leandra Linhares-Lacerda*, Cintia Cristina Palu, Marcelo Ribeiro-Alves, Bruno Diaz Paredes, Alexandre Morrot, Maria Rosa Garcia-Silva, Alfonso Cayota and Wilson Savino An in silico approach reveals associations between genetic and epigenetic factors within regulatory elements in B cells from primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients Orsia D. Konsta, Christelle Le Dantec, Amandine Charras, Wesley H. Brooks, Marina I. Arleevskaya, Anne Bordron and Yves Renaudineau* Dietary mannan oligosaccharides: counteracting the side effects of soybean oil inclusion on European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) gut health? Silvia Torrecillas*, Daniel Montero, Maria José Caballero, Karin A. Pittman, , Marco Custodio, Aurora Campo, John Sweetman and Marisol Izquierdo HIV-1 structural proteins serve as PAMPs for TLR2 heterodimers significantly increasing infection and innate immune activation Bethany M. Henrick, Xiao-Dan Yao, Kenneth Lee Rosenthal* and the INFANT study team Evidence for infection and inflammation in infant deaths in a country with […]

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30 Aug 2015

Most viewed Genetics articles in August 2015

Correcting for the study bias associated with protein-protein interaction measurements reveals differences between protein degree distributions from different cancer types Martin H. Schaefer*, Luis Serrano and Miguel A. Andrade-Navarro A porcine model system of BRCA1 driven breast cancer Howard Donninger, Katherine Hobbing, M. Lee Schmidt, Eric Walters, Laurie Rund, Lawrence Schook and Geoff Clark* Changes in expression of the long noncoding RNA FMR4 associate with altered gene expression during differentiation of human neural precursor cells Veronica J. Peschansky, Chiara Pastori, Zane Zeier, Dario Motti, Katya Wentzel, Dmitry Velmeshev, Marco Magistri, John L. Bixby, Vance P. Lemmon, José P. Silva and Claes Wahlestedt* Detecting modules in biological networks by edge weight clustering and entropy significance Paola Lecca* and Angela Re Evaluating the ability of the pairwise joint site frequency spectrum to co-estimate selection and demography Lisha A. Mathew and Jeffrey D. Jensen* mRNA fragments in in-vitro culture media are associated with bovine preimplantation embryonic development Jenna Kropp and Hasan Khatib* Risk prediction models for oral clefts allowing for phenotypic heterogeneity Yalu Wen and Qing Lu* Characterization of circulating transfer RNA-derived RNA fragments in cattle Eduardo Casas*, Guohong Cai and John D. Neill Evidence for the multiple hits genetic theory for inherited language impairment: a case study Tracy M. Centanni, Jordan R. Green, […]

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29 Aug 2015

Most viewed Microbiology articles in August 2015

The allosteric behavior of Fur mediates oxidative stress signal transduction in Helicobacter pylori Simone Pelliciari, Andrea Vannini, Davide Roncarati and Alberto Danielli* Genome-guided insight into the methylotrophy of Paracoccus aminophilus JCM 7686 Lukasz Dziewit*, Jakub Czarnecki, Emilia Prochwicz, Daniel Wibberg, Andreas Schlüter, Alfred Pühler and Dariusz Bartosik Antibodies against invasive phenotype-specific antigens increase Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis translocation across a polarized epithelial cell model and enhance killing by bovine macrophages Jamie L. Everman, and Luiz E. Bermudez* Paracoccidioides spp. ferrous and ferric iron assimilation pathways Elisa Flávia L. C. Bailão, Patrícia de Sousa Lima, Mirelle G. Silva-Bailão, Alexandre M. Bailão, Gabriel da Rocha Fernandes, Daniel J. Kosman and Célia Maria de Almeida Soares* Response of leaf endophytic bacterial community to elevated CO2 at different growth stages of rice plant Gaidi Ren, Huayong Zhang, Xiangui Lin, Jianguo Zhu and Zhongjun Jia* Defects in polynucleotide phosphorylase impairs virulence in Escherichia coli O157:H7 Jia Hu and Mei-Jun Zhu* Metabolomics reveals differences of metal toxicity in cultures of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 grown on different carbon sources Sean C. Booth, Aalim M. Weljie and Raymond J. Turner* Intrinsic plasmids influence MicF-mediated translational repression of ompF in Yersinia pestis Zizhong Liu, Haili Wang, Hongduo Wang, Jing Wang, Yujing Bi, Xiaoyi Wang, Ruifu Yang* and Yanping Han* […]

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26 Aug 2015

Frontiers articles now integrated with FundRef and CrossMark

At Frontiers, we are always looking for new ways to enhance our published articles to make them useful for researchers and scientists. This goes beyond simply publishing the latest research in our 54 journals that span across over 400 disciplines. Each year thousands of research papers are published in the many journals from publishers around the world. Keeping up with the most recent information available is challenging, which is why we have been working with CrossRef to integrate two of their services into our platform. Beginning this month, Frontiers articles will now include CrossMark and FundRef data when applicable. CrossMark lets people know whether or not they are reading the most recent version of a document. You’ll find the CrossMark logo appearing on all Frontiers articles published after August 24. By clicking on the CrossMark logo located at the top of the article, you’ll discover if there is an update to the article you are reading or if you are reading the most recent version. FundRef also will be integrated into Frontiers articles on August 24, and it will tell you who has funded the research if the funding institution is recognized by FundRef. The logo will appear only on […]

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24 Aug 2015

Early Career Insights: Academic space travel

Geo-political and socio-economic factors allowing, research labs are commonly inhabited by scientists from different cultures — often worlds apart. My personal journey through the multicultural academic space revealed cultural exchange not only makes us better people, but also seems essential for making good scientists. The first landing As many trainees seeking Mars for their first research experience, I was out to discover the scientist being, in a foreign land filled with foreigners. I already spoke Martian quite well, or so I thought at the time, and I was enthusiastic to take part in the great quest for the Truth. Rather soon, I noticed that first contact was more of an orbiting approach, with many losses in translation. I vividly recall the intern from Mercury who refused to “burn his data” on a backup disk, thinking I was asking him to do something, at the least, fire hazardous, and for sure unethical. During initial approach, we academic space travellers, often miss those hints that the information did not get through; it follows that the vacuum between our worlds becomes evident after a series of data is down the hole. With time though, language misunderstandings become less frequent. In the daily exercise […]

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20 Aug 2015

Advantages of being a Frontiers Editor

Last updated October 1, 2018 Combining all its journals, Frontiers supports one of the largest groups of editors in the world of academic publishing, with more than 63,000 board members, enabling them to facilitate the publication of most recent advances in knowledge and research methods in their fields. But why do top scientists and scholars join a Frontiers’ editorial board? BUILDING A JOURNAL BASED ON YOUR BELIEFS One of the many reasons members of the research community have joined Frontiers is because they agree with our vision that oversight and quality control of the scholarly literature should be vested squarely in the research community itself and, in particular, involve active scientists and scholars at all levels. The final decision on what is and what is not published will be exclusively made by the academic handling editor of the manuscript based on the expert advice of their fellow editorial board members. Our publishing model is explained in more detail here. “I’ve been with Frontiers since 2008. The most rewarding aspect has been seeing how the journal has taken off as it has. There is a big community around Frontiers in Psychology now and it is very active. Personally, to be part […]

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17 Aug 2015

Freshwater Science section focuses on balancing water needs

At the end of the last year, we started to work on a new, important and promising specialty section in Frontiers in Environmental Science. Today, we are proud to announce the launch of this newest section – Freshwater Science, led by Specialty Chief Editor Prof. Stuart E Bunn from Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink” – Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, by Coleridge. One of society’s great challenges is to balance the water needs for humans and nature. However, it is increasingly evident from recent global analyses that past approaches to water resource management have failed to address the threats to rivers and wetlands from human activities, and that the situation will worsen as demands for water, food and energy rise. Sustainable management of freshwater ecosystems requires a stronger trans-disciplinary approach: in Freshwater Science we welcome original submissions aimed at finding solutions to water quality and water quantity problems affecting rivers, lakes and wetlands (including groundwater-dependent surface water systems). Our ultimate aim is to foster collaboration among water professionals and promote the science to underpin the Sustainable Development goals for freshwater. As in all Frontiers journals, articles will benefit from standardized, rigorous, transparent and collaborative peer review and be published under […]

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10 Aug 2015

Lasers, colors, pictures

When she was in high school, Dr. Rocío Borrego Varillas’ interest began in Optics. She didn’t know whether she wanted to pursue a research career, or even knew what that meant, but still, an image of herself moving around lenses in a lab was taking shape. She did her PhD at the University of Salamanca, her hometown in Spain, working with ultrashort and ultra-intense lasers. Her project was focused on the optimization of non-linear processes, such as the second-harmonic generation, optical filamentation or supercontinuum generation. They wanted to validate different schemes to enhance the pulses obtained through these processes. For example, how to achieve shorter pulse duration, increase the energy or to modify the color of the laser light for different studies. Rocío is currently doing her postdoc at the Institute Politecnico di Milano (after obtaining the prestigious and competitive Marie Curie fellowship) and is working on generating ultrashort light pulses and applying them to the study of ultrafast phenomena in matter. This is an ambitious project unifying efforts of groups from different fields. Thanks for your time today, Rocío. I think the obvious question to start with is: How did you decide to get into research? Was it a clear election when you finished your […]