Could you image a world without sugar? A life without that spectacular sweet taste in your mouth? Sugar is something that we…
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Basic Neuroscience Sugar, the addictive enemy hiding in plain sightRead more
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From the community From the Community: Statistics – When Confounding Variables Are Out of Control, Neuroskeptic on a PLOS ONE paperRead more
[This post originally appeared on Neuroskeptic blog on April 2, 2016] Does ice cream cause drownings? Let’s think about this statistically. Consider…
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Dinosaurs How many dinosaurs were there?Read more
There are more than 11,000 species of bird living on Earth today. If you recognise that birds are living dinosaurs, which overwhelming…
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Synthetic Biology From the Community: Craig Venter’s Synthetic Genome 3.0 Evokes Classic Experiments | By Ricki Lewis, PLOS DNA Science BlogRead more
J. Craig Venter and his colleagues at Synthetic Genomics Inc update their efforts to create a “hypothetical minimal genome” in this week’s Science. “JCVI-syn3.0,&rdquo…
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post A mathematical view on personality, by Solve SæbøRead more
This post was originally published at blogg.nmbu.no/solvesabo and has been reposted with permission from the author, Solve Sæbø. Both personality and consciousness were properties…
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Ecology The Enemy of My Enemy is…My Alligator? Mutualism and protection rackets in the Florida Everglades.Read more
When you think of alligators the word friendly isn’t usually at the top of the list of descriptors, but for alligators in…
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Synthetic Biology Open Source Hardware is an opportunity for Synthetic Biology research – the DocuBricks approach by Tobias WenzelRead more
by Tobias Wenzel Open Source Hardware is an exciting new trend “This microscope is one of the cleverest pieces of open source…
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Dinosaurs 190 million years of tetrapod biodiversityRead more
Tetrapod is the name given to any vertebrate animal with four (tetra) legs (pod). There are more than 30,000 living species of…
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post How to find a moose: intentions in phenomenological and mechanistic models by Adam ClarkRead more
The above image is by USFWS Midwest (creative commons license). Guest Post by Adam Clark at the University of Minnesota Related PLOS…
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Synthetic Biology TECNOx: A Latin American Syn Bio (and more) student competitionRead more
Andrés Ochoa Cruz1, Fernán Federici2, Raik Grünberg3, Alejandro Daniel Nadra4, Pablo Rodríguez5 and Ignacio Enrique Sánchez4 1 Syntechbio, Arcturus Biocloud, USA…
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Biodiversity Life as a Bird – biodiversity management in New York CityRead more
The above image is by Daniel Piraino (creative commons license) By Lauren Alleman & Sasha Wright We are in an extinction crisis. Global…
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post Beyond the neuron: Emerging roles of glial cells in neuroscienceRead more
This post originally appeared on the PLOS Student Blog. When we think of the brain, we often think of the amazing things…