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Finland expands Frontiers’ Nordic cohort and joins ranks with Norway and Sweden in their commitment to Open Science Facilitated by FinELib consortium and commencing on 1st April, this three-year agreement will allow academics from participating institutions to utilize all the benefits of open access while enjoying simplified processes and discounted fees for their institutions while publishing with Frontiers, the world’s third most-cited publisher. “As more Finnish researchers choose to publish their research with Frontiers, we are delighted to be able to offer significant benefits to the community of scholars....

We are delighted to announce that the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has formed an open access publishing agreement with Frontiers. The Caltech Library supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the Caltech Library has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, Caltech-affiliated corresponding authors will benefit from a 15% discount on article-processing charges (APCs) when publishing in any of Frontiers’ open access journals, irrespective of what fund covers the APC....

We publish research addressing the scientific and engineering challenges of Image Processing, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Image Perception and their related application fields, with a specific attention to emerging interdisciplinary areas. Our specialty welcomes papers both in basic research and applications related to environmental sciences, life sciences, multimedia, video surveillance and biometrics. Frontiers in ICT offers: – Interactive and collaborative review to ensure quality, rigor, and fairness – Open access for maximum visibility and discoverability...

By K.E.D. Coan, science writer During the first wave of the pandemic, the European Union’s COVID-19 response highlighted ongoing limitations of the agencies put in place to prepare for such health crises, shows a recent study. According to a panel of health experts, national interests conflicted with coordinated Europe-wide health regulations. To prepare for the future, the panel recommends better funding and empowerment of these institutions. A new study in Frontiers in Public Health presents a review of expert opinions on the achievements and shortcomings of the European Union’s (EU) COVID-19 response....

Can the Bacterial Community of a High Arctic Glacier Surface Escape Viral Control? Sara M. E. Rassner, Alexandre M. Anesio, Susan E. Girdwood, Katherina Hell, Jarishma K. Gokul, David E. Whitworth and Arwyn Edwards* An Integrated Multi-Omics Approach Reveals the Effects of Supplementing Grass or Grass Hay with Vitamin E on the Rumen Microbiome and Its Function Alejandro Belanche*, Alison H. Kingston-Smith and Charles J. Newbold Use of Potential Probiotic Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) Biofilms for the Control of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella Typhimurium, and Escherichia coli O157:H7 Biofilms Formation Natacha C....

A Novel C-Terminal Domain of RecJ Is Critical for Interaction with HerA in Deinococcus radiodurans Kaiying Cheng, Ye Zhao*, Xuanyi Chen, Tao Li, Liangyan Wang, Hong Xu, Bing Tian* and Yuejin Hua* Investigation of Antioxidative and Anticancer Potentials of Streptomyces sp. MUM256 Isolated from Malaysia Mangrove Soil Loh Teng-Hern Tan, Hooi-Leng Ser, Wai-Fong Yin, Kok-Gan Chan, Learn-Han Lee* and Bey-Hing Goh* Integrated ‘Omics’, Targeted Metabolite and Single-cell Analyses of Arctic Snow Algae Functionality and Adaptability Stefanie Lutz*, Alexandre M....

VESPUCCI: Exploring Patterns of Gene Expression in Grapevine Marco Moretto, Paolo Sonego, Stefania Pilati, Giulia Malacarne, Laura Costantini, Lukasz Grzeskowiak, Giorgia Bagagli, Maria Stella Grando, Claudio Moser and Kristof Engelen* Trade-Offs between Economic and Environmental Impacts of Introducing Legumes into Cropping Systems Moritz Reckling*, Göran Bergkvist, Christine A. Watson, Frederick L. Stoddard, Peter M. Zander, Robin L. Walker, Aurelio Pristeri, Ion Toncea and Johann Bachinger Implication of Abscisic Acid on Ripening and Quality in Sweet Cherries: Differential Effects during Pre- and Post-harvest Verónica Tijero, Natalia Teribia, Paula Muñoz and Sergi Munné-Bosch*...

A research topic on the control and elimination of dog-mediated human rabies comes at the perfect time to support efforts towards a rabies-free future. The research topic comes at the perfect time to support countries to move more quickly towards a rabies-free future. — By Salome Dürr, Anna Sophie Fahrion, Lea Knopf, Louise Taylor, Research Topic Editors A Frontiers research topic on the control and elimination of dog-mediated human rabies provides a vital overview of the challenges but also the opportunities to eradicate this deadly disease by 2030....

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Scientists show that the yield of cabbages grown on soils supplied with two modern nitrified urine fertilizers recycled from human urine is approximately equal to the yield when soils are fertilized with commercial vinasse. The exclusive use of compost recycled from human feces gave a slightly lower yield, but such compost is expected to give extra carbon to soils when combined with nitrified urine fertilizers....

Frontiers Briefing Note OSTP Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available without Delay Introduction On 25 August 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) unveiled vital new policy guidance to make the results of federally funded scientific research in the United States immediately free to access and available to all. We strongly backed that guidance and we outline here our thoughts on implementation. Frontiers is a leading research publisher, the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest in the world....

Article collection on functional and structural brain abnormalities in primary and secondary headaches welcomes original research, opinion and review articles In 2015 headache has been ranked by the Global Burden of Disease Study as one of the most common and disabling neurological diseases worldwide. Many conditions are related to headache and the International Headache Society (HIS) distinguished headache as primary when it is not caused by another condition and secondary when there is a further underlying cause....

Frontiers today ended the engagement of several Specialty Chief Editors and the Field Chief Editors of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine and Frontiers in Medicine. Frontiers today ended the engagement of several Specialty Chief Editors and the Field Chief Editors of Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine and Frontiers in Medicine. The Chief Editors wanted Frontiers to change its fundamental principle of distributed editorial decision-making during peer-review and the editors refused communication with Frontiers, some even blocking journal operations, until these demands were met....

We are delighted to announce that Simon Fraser University (SFU) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Simon Fraser University Library (SFU Library) supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Simon Fraser University has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, eligible authors from Simon Fraser University may publish in any qualifying Frontiers journal with up to $2,500 CAD of the article processing charge (APC) covered by the Open Access Fund, and with a simplified process....

Fungal Disease Awareness Week brings undiagnosed infections and molecular fungi-host interactions to light In recognition of Fungal Disease Awareness Week, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology are encouraging readers to #ThinkFungus. Fungal infections can go undiagnosed, increasing the risk of ineffective treatment and morbidity for patients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, through the rise of antifungal drug resistance, treatment is becoming harder as has been previously discussed by our Chief Editors Joseph Heitman and Anuradha Chowdhary....

Any benefit of using cats to control city rats is outweighed by the threat they pose to birds and other urban wildlife: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Researchers show feral cats are not efficient predators of New York City’s rats — and why — Edited by Emma Duncan, Frontiers science writer The first study to document interactions between feral cats and a wild rat colony finds that contrary to popular opinion, cats are not good predators of rats....

Population Stratification in the Context of Diverse Epidemiologic Surveys Sans Genome-Wide Data Matthew T. Oetjens, Kristin Brown-Gentry, Robert Goodloe, Holli H. Dilks and Dana C. Crawford* Cartography of Pathway Signal Perturbations Identifies Distinct Molecular Pathomechanisms in Malignant and Chronic Lung Diseases Arsen Arakelyan*, Lilit Nersisyan, Martin Petrek, Henry Löffler-Wirth and Hans Binder Recursive Indirect-Paths Modularity (RIP-M) for Detecting Community Structure in RNA-Seq Co-expression Networks Bahareh Rahmani, Michael T. Zimmermann, Diane E....

A new study sheds light on the mechanism of prolonged neuronal degeneration following optic nerve injury, which could provide treatment targets for preserving eyesight; Frontiers in Neuroscience A new study sheds light on the mechanism of prolonged neuronal degeneration following optic nerve injury, which could provide treatment targets for preserving eyesight — by Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, USA When a car crash or explosion results in an optic nerve injury, eliminating an enzyme known to promote inflammation appears to aid recovery, scientists report....

The national agreement allows researchers in Sweden to publish in Frontiers’ journals through a simplified process with discounted fees. Update 22/04/2022: Please find an updated list of participating institutions here. Swedish researchers can now publish their articles in Frontiers’ Open Access journals through a simplified process with discounted fees, thanks to a national agreement announced today between Frontiers and the National Library of Sweden (NLS), on behalf of the organizations participating in the Bibsam Consortium....

Prof Chitrita (Chobi) Debroy is hoping researchers from around the world will submit an abstract or a manuscript to help find new solutions for detecting E. coli. By Michelle Ponto, Frontiers science writer Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports the two E. coli outbreaks that occurred from food eaten at a Chipotle Mexican Grills in December 2015 are now contained. It resulted in 60 people infected with the outbreak strain of STEC 026 across 11 states....

By Peter Rejcek, science writer The use of x-ray computed tomography has greatly improved the ability of paleontologists to study the morphology of dinosaur fossils. Now, thanks to innovations in artificial intelligence, machines may soon be able to tackle the labor-intensive job of segmentation, a process for classifying similar sections of an image for analysis. Researchers tested different deep neural networks on more than 10,000 CT scans of embryonic skulls with encouraging results....