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Study shows how young children can run around all day: their muscles resist fatigue and recover in the same way as elite endurance athletes: Frontiers in Physiology Researchers discover how young kids seem to run around all day without getting tired: their muscles resist fatigue and recover in the same way as elite endurance athletes — By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, science writer Children not only have fatigue-resistant muscles, but recover very quickly from high-intensity exercise — even faster than well-trained adult endurance athletes....

Get the Frontiers’ Editorial Office picks of top research published in Frontiers in Immunology Stay up-to-date with top Immunology research Are you up to speed on the top research being published in Frontiers in Immunology? Featured Article What if all the research on NK cell-based cancer therapy was summarized into one paper? This is what Sebastian Carotta has done in his Review entitled Targeting NK Cells for Anticancer Immunotherapy: Clinical and Preclinical Approaches....

Enrichment of Inflammatory IL-17 and TNF-α Secreting CD4+ T Cells within Colorectal Tumors despite the Presence of Elevated CD39+ T Regulatory Cells and Increased Expression of the Immune Checkpoint Molecule, PD-1 Margaret R. Dunne, Ciara Ryan, Bláthnaid Nolan, Miriam Tosetto, Robert Geraghty, Des C. Winter, P. Ronan O’Connell, John M. Hyland, Glen A. Doherty, Kieran Sheahan, Elizabeth J. Ryan* and Jean M. Fletcher Variation in Practice of the Diagnostic Workup of Asymptomatic Patients Diagnosed with Invasive Breast Cancer Anees B....

How do sea urchin cope with climate change? Frontiers in Marine Science By Beth King, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute As oceans warm and become more acidic and oxygen-poor, Smithsonian researchers asked how marine life on a Caribbean coral reef copes with changing conditions. “During my study, water temperatures on reefs in Bocas del Toro, Panama, reached an alarming high of almost 33 degrees C (or 91 degrees F), temperatures that would make most of us sweat or look for air conditioning—options not available to reef inhabitants,” said Noelle Lucey, post-doctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)....

The section focuses on epigenetic processes and mechanisms involved in programming developmental trajectories and the consequences of unprogrammed rewiring in disease. The new section focuses on epigenetic processes and mechanisms involved in programming developmental trajectories, as well as the consequences of unprogrammed rewiring of the epigenetic network in disease. — By Justyna Lisowska Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology is delighted to announce the launch of a new section, Developmental Epigenetics, led by Professor Rosalind M John from Cardiff University, UK, and Professor Claire Rougeulle from Paris Diderot University, France....

The latest eBook collections of research topic articles — eruption dynamics, rabies, brain homeostasis, food microbes and more! All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute. Science: Associations between Reading and Mathematics: Genetic, Brain Imaging, Cognitive and Educational Perspectives, Hosted by Sarit Ashkenazi, Orly Rubinsten and Bert De Smedt Stress Field Control of Eruption Dynamics, Hosted by Roberto Sulpizio, Antonio Costa and Geoffrey Wadge Molecular Pathogenesis of Pneumococcus, Hosted by Guangchun Bai and Jorge Eugenio Vidal...

Oladele Ogunseitan leads new specialty on Toxicology, Pollution and the Environment Specialty Chief Editor, Prof Oladele Ogunseitan from the University of California Irvine, will lead the new Toxicology, Pollution and the Environment specialty in Frontiers in Environmental Science. He currently co-chair’s Apple Inc.’s Green Chemistry Advisory Board. In 2018, he received a meritorious honor award from the U.S. Department of State for exceptional teamwork and contributions to the successful achievement of U....

Researchers read into the biological history of plants to reveal how plants will survive when birds and bees fly away. By Mônica Favre, Ph.D, Science Writer How can plants adapt to climate change? Unlike animals that can actively fly, swim or walk away to new locations when climate becomes too hostile, plants must adapt their biological functions – or perish. New, collaborative research sheds some light on how plant evolutionary history will help us protect them....

The association between persistent cannabis use and violence is stronger than that associated with alcohol or cocaine, concludes a study in Frontiers in Psychiatry. The association between persistent cannabis use and violence is stronger than that associated with alcohol or cocaine. — University of Montreal A new study by researchers at the Institut en santé mentale de Montréal demonstrates that sustained used of cannabis is associated with an increase in violent behavior in young people after discharge from a psychiatric hospital....

By Colm Gorey, Science Communications Manager At Frontiers, we bring some of the world’s best research to a global audience. But with tens of thousands of articles published each year, many often fly under the radar. Here are just four amazing papers you may have missed. What are the odds? Honeybees join humans as the only animals known to be able to tell the difference between odd and even numbers A study published to Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution has created quite a ‘buzz’ among academics after it was found honeybees possess maths skills beyond what was originally thought....

Open University of Catalonia has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Open University of Catalonia researchers may benefit from a 10% discount under the terms of the CSUC Open Access publishing framework agreement. The university library of the Open University of Catalonia supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. This agreement will further encourage Open University of Catalonia researchers to publish open access, increasing the volume of research openly available....

By Marcus Banks, Frontiers Science Writer Almost from the moment of birth, human beings are able to distinguish between speakers of their native language and speakers of all other languages. We have a hard-wired preference for our own language patterns, so much so that the cries of very young infants reflect the melodies of their native language. The connection between language and social preferences is well-established. New research, recently published in Frontiers in Psychology, demonstrates that infants also pay attention to language cues in deciding where to place their attention....

Announcement of the the winners of the Frontiers Prize Draw at the Experimental Biology Conference in San Diego, April 2014! The winners of the draw have each won a waiver for submitting their next research article to any Frontiers journal, free of charge! Aldrin Gomes, University of California, USA Manish Saraf, University of Texas Medical Branch, USA Kevin Vincent, University of California, USA Thank you all for stopping by our booth at Experimental Biology and congratulations to our winners!...

When one of the researchers asked how you should then go about scaling up to older audiences, the speaker laughed and delivered a punchline: “You don’t.” Note: This blog post was originally published as a blog on Scientific American (http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/frontiers-for-young-minds/aiming-too-high-or-too-low-when-communicating-science/) I recently had the opportunity to take part in a workshop for researchers about communicating science to the public. At one point the speaker suggested that the first step for anyone would be to learn how to translate scientific concepts so that a child would be able to understand them....

Cultured insect tissue could combine the planet-saving best of insect farming, GM livestock, labriculture and plant-based meat substitutes — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer Livestock farming is destroying our planet. It is a major cause of land and water degradation, biodiversity loss – and of course, climate change. Several potential solutions have been proposed. Popular options are plant-based diets, insect farming, lab-grown meat and genetically modified animals. Which is best?...

By Colm Gorey, Frontiers Science Communications Manager In an ever-changing field of research such as neurology, it can be difficult to keep up with the latest breakthroughs. Now at Frontiers, we highlight just three of the latest research articles to shed more light on how the mind works. The human brain is an organ that has fascinated our species for centuries, with vast amounts of research so far yielding a wealth of discoveries....

Frontiers 2013 Progress Report The Frontiers Progress Report, published today, details the major milestones and achievements reached in 2013, including a number of “Frontiers in” journals that have become among the largest and most highly cited in their fields. Frontiers in Psychology, launched in 2010, is now the world’s largest psychology journal and Frontiers in Physiology, Frontiers in Plant Science and Frontiers in Microbiology are all the largest open-access journals in their respective fields....

When adding more green to your neighborhood, are all trees the same? Not quite, according to recent research led by Heikki Setälä from the University of Helsinki. By Reeteka Sud, Science Writer Soil ecosystem services are finely attuned to vegetation type Regardless of where you stand on the debate on global warming, one thing we can all agree on is that human beings have substantially altered the earth’s surface. Legally, and at times illegally, forest cover has been declining....

This month’s Staff Pick comes from Tania Pernes. Tania is an Editorial Project Manager at Frontiers and is responsible for growing our Health Journals. The article she selected as her staff pick is currently the most successful article in Frontiers in Public Health with more than 28,000 views. Frontiers Staff Pick: Energy drink consumption in Europe: a review of the risks, adverse health effects, and policy options to respond As an athlete, my coach used to mention the potential of energy drinks on post-workout recovery or between high intense exercises....

Promoting the enjoyable aspects of insect-based food is more effective than highlighting health or environmental benefits: Frontiers in Nutrition Researchers find promoting the enjoyable aspects of insect-based food is more effective than highlighting health or environmental benefits. — By Conn Hastings, science writer A new study finds that promoting insect-based food as pleasurable, rather than healthy or environmentally friendly, could be the most effective marketing strategy for these currently taboo or unappealing foods....