Paul Sereno’s paper [2] wasn’t – by any means – the only PLoS ONE paper published last week [3] to have been covered by the press and by bloggers.
The Neuroscience of Things That Make You Go "Ew!" [1]
Submitted by Rebecca Walton on Mon, 2008-08-18 12:04.
Digging into the "Green Desert" of Niger's Holocene Past [6]
Submitted by Rebecca Walton on Mon, 2008-08-18 11:47.
After the massive media buzz [7] surrounding the last paper [8] published in PLoS ONE [9] by Paul Sereno [10], in which he and colleagues described the anatomy and behaviour of Nigersaurus taqueti (dubbed “the Mesozoic cow” by the press), you can imagine that we were quite excited to receive another paper [11] from the University of Chicago Palaeontologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence.
Tyrannosaurus Re-examined [14]
Submitted by Rebecca Walton on Fri, 2008-08-01 08:38.
This week saw the publication of another [15] dinosaur [16] study in PLoS ONE. In the article, entitled, Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial Biofilms [17], Thomas Kaye, at the Burke Museum of Natural History, and colleagues reported that material recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones by palaeontologists in 2005 (and believed to be dinosaurian soft tissue) may actually have been slimy biofilm created by bacteria that coated the voids once occupied by blood vessels and cells.
Open Access to Health and Human Rights [20]
Submitted by Gavin Yamey on Wed, 2008-07-23 01:37.
Here’s another important step forward in the open access movement. Under its new editor Paul Farmer [21] (who is often talked about [22] as a future Nobel laureate), the international journal Health and Human Rights [23] (HHR) has become fully open access.
( categories: In the News [24] )
Just Saying No to Drug Reps [25]
Submitted by Gavin Yamey on Tue, 2008-07-15 13:46.
When we launched PLoS Medicine in October 2004, the editors announced [26] that we would “not to be part of the cycle of dependency that has formed between journals and the pharmaceutical industry.”
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