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Sickle Cells Abolish Melanoma Tumorigenesis in Hemoglobin SS Knockin Mice and Augment the Tumoricidal Effect of Oncolytic Virus In Vivo Chiang Wang Sun, Candice Willmon, Li-Chen Wu, Peter Knopick, Jutta Thoerner, Richard Vile, Tim M. Townes and David S. Terman* Predicting Biochemical Disease-Free Survival after Prostate Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy: Risk-Stratification and Patterns of Failure Alan Katz, Silvia C. Formenti and Josephine Kang* Proctitis 1 Week after Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Implications for Clinical Trial Design Ima Paydar, Robyn A....

Behavioral differences between bots and humans could inform new algorithms for bot detection: Frontiers in Physics — by Tayyibah Aziz, Frontiers Science Writer Bots are social media accounts which are controlled by artificial software rather than by humans and serve a variety of purposes from news aggregation to automated customer assistance for online retailers. However, bots have recently been under the spotlight as they are regularly employed as part of large-scale efforts on social media to manipulate public opinion, such as during electoral campaigns....

Frontiers has several key strategies to ensure the highest quality standards possible through our collaborative peer review. Research output is currently increasing exponentially across the globe. There are more researchers (7 -9 million) being trained, more data being produced and more articles (2.5 million) being published than ever before. Scholarly publishing is challenged to adopt to the exponential increase in scientific output and needs to come up with new tools and technologies so that society can benefit from this wealth in research knowledge....

You’ve been asking for it and now it’s available. You can now communicate with your fellow researchers on Loop using private messaging. The Loop team is dedicated to developing products and services that facilitate effective communication between you and your peers. Our new instant messaging service provides a platform for new collaboration opportunities, beyond the boundaries of your institution or location, thereby enabling faster academic communication and discovery. You can now quickly and easily exchange direct messages in a single thread....

Co-Specialty Chief Editor Dr. Orsolya Valkó brings a renewed focus on ecosystem restoration to Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution As the international community mobilizes to tackle the urgent matter of ecosystem restoration, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is delighted to bring Dr. Orsolya Valkó’s expertise to the journal, helping drive forth crucial research in the field. Dr. Valkó was recently appointed co-Specialty Chief Editor for our Conservation section. Dr. Valkó currently heads the ‘Lendület’ Seed Ecology Research Group at the Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany in Vácrátót, Hungary....

Self-limiting diamondback moth may pave the way for sustainable approach to pest control: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology — by Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, Frontiers Science Writer For decades, the agriculture industry has been trying to find biological and environmentally friendly ways to manage the diamondback moth, which is widely resistant to insecticides. To combat this, a newly engineered strain of an insect pest performs well in US field trials conducted by Cornell University....

Gabriella Zozzaro, office manager of Frontiers’ Switzerland office, set up the volunteering and philanthropy program with Francesca Tettamanzi. She talks to us about her experience volunteering with Legumes Perches, and how it reflects her day to day work ethic. Gabriella Zozzaro, office manager of Frontiers in Switzerland, set up the volunteering and philanthropy program with Francesca Tettamanzi. She talks to us about her experience volunteering with Legumes Perches, and how it reflects her day to day work ethic....

In two new species of rare giant stick insects, males turn livid blue or multicolored at sexual maturity; Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution In two new species of rare giant stick insects, males turn livid blue or multicolored at sexual maturity — but why? — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer Biodiversity hotspot Madagascar is one of the world’s biggest islands, and home to some of its biggest insects. Now German scientists have discovered two new species of giant stick insect, living only in the dry forests of Madagascar’s northernmost tip....

This Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, provides a home for studies exploring how the microbiome and host organisms interact. This Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, provides a home for studies exploring how the microbiome and host organisms interact. — By Conn Hastings When we look in the mirror we see what appears to be a discrete organism. We look at plants and animals and see them as unique and individual players in the planet’s ecosystem....

We are delighted to announce that the University of Stirling has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. This landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research. The University of Stirling supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this deal, eligible authors may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process....

BI Norwegian Business School (Handelshøyskolen BI – BI) supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, BI will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. Furthermore, BI will benefit from a 10% membership discount under the terms of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement. Eligible authors are corresponding authors affiliated with BI. More information about the eligibility criteria can be found on the BI research portal....

3-14-’15-9:26 — Happy Pi Day ! We celebrated in style yesterday at our Lausanne office, thanks to the impressive and delicious efforts of our colleagues Marie Soulière, Shaun Evans, and Marc Bettex. And while we’re at it: pi lovers, watch out for our upcoming OA journal Frontiers in Applied Mathematics & Statistics. As a journal driven and directed by working scientists, for working scientists, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics will be your portal to fast, high quality peer-reviewed publication – a journal in which authors retain copyright to their work and reach a wide audience through open access....

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Scientists determined that compounds which play key roles in both collagen synthesis and circadian management can be used to make wounds on cell samples heal more quickly and effectively, offering promise for treatments to prevent problem scarring in the future. Healing often leaves a scar. But the role of the scar itself in healing is often underestimated: a scar that doesn’t heal cleanly can be painful or upsetting or affect the range of movement of the affected body part....

Transient Expression of Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus Effector Induces Cell Death in Nicotiana benthamiana Marco Pitino, Cheryl M. Armstrong, Liliana M. Cano and Yongping Duan* Identification of Putative RuBisCo Activase (TaRca1)—The Catalytic Chaperone Regulating Carbon Assimilatory Pathway in Wheat (Triticum aestivum) under the Heat Stress Ranjeet R. Kumar, Suneha Goswami, Khushboo Singh, Kavita Dubey, Shweta Singh, Renu Sharma, Neeraj Verma, Yugal K. Kala, Gyanendra K. Rai, Monendra Grover, Dwijesh C. Mishra, Bhupinder Singh, Himanshu Pathak, Viswanathan Chinnusamy, Anil Rai and Shelly Praveen...