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• Warm-blooded dinosaurs worked up a sweat

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  Were dinosaurs "warm-blooded" like present-day mammals and birds, or "cold-blooded" like present day lizards?
  3 days ago

• When Bats Have Sex

  
  As You Like It — Authority: 110
  I honestly did not believe I would live long enough to see an article on fellatio in bats, but a newly published study has me seriously rethinking my costume for next Halloween. The study, published in PLOS is titled Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time and has concluded the following: "Female ...
  1 week ago

• Richard Smith: The beginning of the end for impact factors and journals

  
  BMJ — Authority: 498
  Something has just happened that will almost certainly end the tyranny of impact factors and may well mark another step towards the extinction of most scientific journals. Did you notice it? Probably not, and even if you did you may not have...
  1 week ago

• Bat Porn for Halloween and Beyond

  
  As You Like It — Authority: 110
    I honestly did not believe I would live long enough to see an article on fellatio in bats, but a newly published study has me seriously rethinking my costume for next Halloween. The study, published in PLOS is titled Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time and has concluded the following: "Female ...
  1 week ago

• New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago -- with great fanfa
  2 weeks ago

• USU scientists report major advance in human antibody therapy against deadly Nipah virus

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
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  2 weeks ago

• Study finds bats practice oral sex

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  London, Oct 30 (ANI): A new study has show that female short-nosed fruit bats perform fellatio on their partners during copulation.The study also revealed that mating pairs spent more time copulating if the female did so.Fellatio, also called fellation, is oral sex performed upon the penis, reports New Scientist.Min ...
  2 weeks ago

• Genomics of Emerging Infectious Disease PLoS Collection

  
  A Blog Around The Clock — Authority: 591
  If you follow me on Twitter or peruse the links in my daily Tweetlinks summaries, you may have noticed I posted several links to a new Collection at PLoS. This one is not just a PLoS ONE Collection, but a PLoS-wide one, spanning all of the journals in the house. The Collection Genomics of Emerging Infectious ...
  2 weeks ago

• Genetic Tuna Tracking Opening New Options in Race to Save Fish And Fisheries

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  A new method that uses gene sequencing to accurately distinguish between tuna species has the potential to support fisheries management and possible trade restrictions for endangered tuna species. The new method, revealed in a paper published today in PLoS ONE, the online open-access scientific journal, can make an ...
  2 weeks ago

• New insight in the fight against the Leishmania parasite

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  Professor Albert Descoteaux’s team at Centre INRS – Institut Armand-Frappier has gained a better understanding of how the Leishmania donovani parasite manages to outsmart the human immune system and proliferate with impunity, causing visceral leishmaniasis, a chronic infection that is potentially fatal if left ...
  2 weeks ago

• Sending Science Down The Phone: New Technology Will Map Research Across The World

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia New mobile phone software will help epidemiologists and ecologists working in the field to analyse their data remotely and map findings across the world, without having to return to the lab, according to research published in PLoS ONE . The authors of the study, from Imperial College ...
  2 weeks ago

• Interactive 3D Molecules in articles

  
  Macromolecular Modeling Blog — Authority: 115
  PLoS ONE launched a new collection titled “Structural Biology and Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGC” which makes use of three dimensional molecular animation technology.
  3 weeks ago

• Its so easy to re-use Open Access stuff (video)

  
  A Blog Around The Clock — Authority: 591
  Its barely been a day since PLoS ONE published the article Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila when a video appeared on YouTube mashing up images and text from the press release: Of course, as this is Open Access, nobody needs to worry about copyright and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Widely used virus assay shown unreliable when compared to other methods

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  Blacksburg, Va. -- In the course of doing research on the mosquito-borne pathogens chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and o nyong-nyong virus (ONNV), Virginia Tech researchers have discovered an inconvenient truth about an assay, strand-specific quantitative real-time PCR (ssqPCR), increasingly being used to detect and measure ...
  3 weeks ago

• Presidential election outcome changed voters testosterone

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  DURHAM, N.C. -- Young men who voted for Republican John McCain or Libertarian candidate Robert Barr in the 2008 presidential election suffered an immediate drop in testosterone when the election results were announced, according to a study by researchers at Duke University and the University of Michigan.
  3 weeks ago

• Open access to research recognized this week

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 432
  It’s Open Access week ! Time to honor the principle that scientific research should be made available for free online immediately upon publication, a principle that’s served health journalists pretty well over the past few years. Universities, government organizations and other groups around the world will ...
  3 weeks ago

• Transcription Start Sites, databases and tools

  
  The OpenHelix Blog — Authority: 127
  A recent paper in PLoS One finds hundreds of new putative transcription start sites (TSS): PLoS ONE: Genome-Wide Identification of Transcription Start Sites, Promoters and Transcription Factor Binding Sites in E. coli . I found the paper interesting, and a good example of how high-throughput studies and genomics can ...
  3 weeks ago

• Interactive 3D Visualisations of Biological Molecules Integrated into the Scholarly Literature

  
  Useful Chemistry — Authority: 481
  The embargo has now been lifted on the announcement from PLoS ONE - partially reproduced here: On October 20th 2009, PLoS ONE will feature an impressive new 3D molecular animation technology on five newly published articles. This represents the start of a new PLoS ONE collection entitled “Structural Biology and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nurses safely and effectively prescribe antiretroviral drugs in pilot program

  
  West Africa Doctors Network West Africa Doctors Network — Authority: 126
  Given sufficient training and support, nurses can safely and effectively prescribe antiretroviral therapy (ART) to patients with HIV, according to a Rwandan study published in this week’s PLoS Medicine.As in many other African countries, Rwanda has a shortage of doctors, which implies that many patients with HIV ...
  3 weeks ago

• New research reveals 41 percent increase in childrens short stay hospital admissions

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 630
  The number of children being admitted to hospitals in England for short stays increased by 41 per cent between 1996 and 2006, according to research published in PLoS One today.
  4 weeks ago

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