This year in the United States, almost 7 million people will encounter the problem of infertility and will likely require some form…
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The Student Blog Sperm: A ‘Coming of Age’ JourneyRead more
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The Student Blog Making sense of the fifth sense: What we know about smellRead more
By Cici Zhang “I avoid applying sunscreen unless it’s absolutely necessary. The smell of it always brings me back to my semester…
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The Student Blog Ebola Remembered: A report from this year’s American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meetingRead more
The annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), held this year in Philadelphia from October 25 through…
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The Student Blog Should we be “eating everything in moderation”?Read more
On Thursday, people across the United States will be filling their plates with a variety of traditional Thanksgiving dishes: roast turkey, stuffing…
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The Student Blog An overview of #antibioticresistance after the first World Antibiotic Awareness weekRead more
The World Health Organization launched the first World Antibiotic Awareness week, and from November 16-22 2015 discussion centered on the emerging threat…
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The Student Blog How to get a better deal: New PLOS ONE economics study examines negotiation strategiesRead more
Though the evidence shows the United States economy has been getting stronger, we still hear the same dire news: wages have been…
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Neuroscience Learning to Fly: Decoding Neural Circuits in Drosophila melanogasterRead more
Model organisms are a special type of technology. Scientists can make then do things that we value as humans but that they…
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The Student Blog Wake up and smell the coffee: Climate change and coffee productionRead more
Formerly known as the “devil’s drink,” coffee is increasingly being viewed as an “elixir of life”. Nowadays, we are getting accustomed to…
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The Student Blog Highlights from SfN 2015: All-Optical Interrogation of Neural CircuitsRead more
PLOS Student Bloggers Dan Albaugh and Jeremy Boringer discuss the ‘all optical’ symposium at the 2015 Society for Neuroscience (#SfN2015) conference. Spatially…
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The Student Blog 10-28-2015 Global Health AMA Preview: Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Maternal and Newborn HealthRead more
The global health community has seen substantial reductions in deaths from “the big three” infectious diseases: HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis; as well…
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The Student Blog Open for Collaboration: Why open access publishing creates more networking opportunities for young scientistsRead more
By Farzana Rahman The theme for Open Access Week 2015 is “Open for Collaboration”. Now in its eight year, #OAWeek2015 celebrates how…
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The Student Blog How do we define and measure scientific literacy?Read more
By Joseph Timpona How do we define and measure scientific literacy? Whether we are aware of it or not, many current political…