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We continue to support UKRI’s open access policy, which will see all peer-reviewed research articles resulting from its funding made universally and freely accessible to people everywhere from today. The spirit of Plan S and the open access movement continue to make progress. UKRI should be commended for its position and support of open access’s original model. Barriers to research by way of expensive paywalls impair scientific discovery. The rapid and free dissemination of research and data around COVID-19 resulted in the fastest vaccine development in human history....

Frontiers in Genome Editing has launched! This new journal will share editing applications that encompass basic research and translational medicine. by Dario Menéndez Recent reports from the United Nations, estimate 1 in 9 people across the globe do not eat enough food to support a healthy lifestyle. Prof. Bing Yang who studies gene editing technology applications in plants says: “Genome editing can help crop breeding with shorter time and precision, maximize the potential of crop yields, develop plants more tolerant to pests, diseases and help prolong shelf life of food products to avoid waste....

To mark the International Day of Education, we speak with Margaret Grogan, a professor at the Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, and Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Education, about her incredible journey and reflect on the importance of education in the making of our world. Author: Carolina Capelo Garcia Margaret Grogan is a professor of leadership studies in the Donna Ford Attallah College of Educational Studies, Chapman University, and Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Education....

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The ease with which we can access quality healthcare, novel therapies and widely-available medicine is unprecedented in our history. This new journal section on Fungal Pathogenesis will enable multidisciplinary researchers in the field of fungal genomics, host interactions and clinical mycology to openly share their research with the international community. The ease with which we can access quality healthcare, novel therapies and widely-available medicine is unprecedented in our history. Yet, as we develop new, ground-breaking treatments for disease, we are not the only ones evolving....

We are delighted to inform you that Technische Universität Darmstadt holds a Central Invoicing agreement with Frontiers. Technische Universität Darmstadt, will cover Article Publishing Fees for eligible corresponding authors affiliated with the University who wish to publish in any of the Frontiers journals. Information for authors: To submit your article under this institutional agreement, please select ‘Technische Universität Darmstadt’ as institutional payer in the invoice section when submitting your article. Frontiers will then verify your eligibility with the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and if confirmed, the APC (minus the discount) will be paid by Technische Universität Darmstadt upon acceptance....

Frontiers in Built Environment reveals the winners of the third Joseph M. Sussman Prize celebrating the best articles published in the Transportation and Transit Systems section of the journal. Frontiers in Built Environment is delighted to reveal the winners of the third Joseph M. Sussman Prize celebrating the best articles published in the Transportation and Transit Systems section of the journal:Sania E. Seilabi, Mahmood T. Tabesh, Amir Davatgari, Mohammad Miralinaghi and Samuel Labifor for their article: “Promoting Autonomous Vehicles Using Travel Demand and Lane Management Strategies”...

by Alice Rolandini Jensen, Frontiersin.org If we are in a relationship we are more likely to be attracted to faces resembling our own, but for single people, opposites attract. Relationship status affects who and what we find attractive, found a study published in Frontiers in Psychology. Dr Jitka Lindová of Charles University in the Czech Republic and her team showed a series of photographs of faces to university students and asked them to rate their attractiveness....

By Clarissa Wright, Frontiers science writer The Early Permian marked a time of major seasonal changes on the planet, as reptiles rapidly diversified. A key innovation is seen in bolosaurids with the ability to run at high speeds on two legs. Scientists from California State University and Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the US and University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada, collaborated in a study recently published to Frontiers presenting the first comprehensive description of the earliest known bipedal reptile from the Early Permian – a type of bolosaurid called Eudibamus cursoris....

By Colm Gorey, Frontiers science writer/Prof James Serpell, University of Pennsylvania Two distinctly different stories have been created to explain how fearsome, wild wolves were first domesticated by humans, according to Prof James A Serpell of the University of Pennsylvania and the Wallis Annenberg PetShape Leadership Institute. However, in the open access journal Frontiers, he recently published a paper investigating the truth of these claims. Despite being considered mankind’s best friend, the ancestors of modern dogs were a lot less welcoming to human owners....

The finding could help with efforts to develop disease resistance against fungal infections and other plant pathogens: Frontiers in Plant Science The finding could help with efforts to develop disease resistance against fungal infections and other plant pathogens. — By Washington State University Cancer-fighting drugs used on humans can help plants fight disease as well. That discovery, by two Washington State University plant pathologists, could help scientists develop new pathways for plants to battle infection, as revealed in an article in Frontiers in Plant Science....

In association with the Bay Area Science Festival, Frontiers for Young Minds hosted the second edition of our annual event, held at the Chabot Space and Science center in Oakland on the 29th of October and what a success it was! Researchers were asked to present their work not only to the public, but also to a panel of six young reviewers who had a variety of challenging questions for them....

Citizen scientists can play video game to help research on coral reefs: Frontiers in Marine Science By Tayyibah Aziz, science writer A new study has demonstrated how video games can be used as a citizen science approach to train artificial intelligence tools, with data contributing towards coral reef conservation efforts. The NeMO-Net video game, designed by researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley and led by principal investigator Dr Ved Chirayath, provides an educational and intuitive tool for players to learn about and explore coral reef ecosystems, whilst also bringing marine conservation research to wider audiences....

Stanford researchers took a virtual reality experience into a variety of educational settings, including high school classrooms, to test the impact on awareness and understanding of ocean acidification; Frontiers in Psychology Stanford researchers took a virtual reality experience into a variety of educational settings, including high school classrooms, to test the impact on awareness and understanding of ocean acidification — by Rob Jordan, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Utter the words “ocean acidification” in mixed company, and you’ll probably get blank stares....

After decades of mouse studies, bacterial immunotherapy looks set for a return to oncology clinics; Frontiers in Oncology After decades of mouse studies, bacterial immunotherapy looks set for a return to oncology clinics — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer Cancers evade destruction by convincing some immune cells to suppress others. But a surprising interlocutor can persuade the suppressors to defect, and the destroyers to redouble. A review published in Frontiers in Oncology explains how bacteria can rally immune cells to attack tumors, via ancient lines of chemical communication with our immune system....

The journal welcomes research on data mining, cybersecurity, machine learning, AI, big data networks, and data-driven climate science, health and medicine The big data revolution is here — and with Frontiers in Big Data, it’s Open Access — By Louisa Wood The time is now for big data — and Frontiers in Big Data provides a centralized pool of peer-reviewed, cutting-edge knowledge to drive the big data revolution. Headed by leading experts, this new open-access journal includes six sections:...

Frontiers in Psychiatry is pleased to announce Prof Stefan Borgwardt as the journal’s new Field Chief Editor. Stefan Borgwardt is professor at the University of Basel, and head of the Diagnostic and Crisis Intervention Centre at the Psychiatric University Hospital, UPK Basel, Switzerland. We asked about what prompted him to work as a psychiatrist and to learn more about his goals and mission for the journal: Tell us a little about your research history....

Media coverage of research published in Frontiers. When people sing in a choir their heart beats are synchronised, so that the pulse of choir members tends to increase and decrease in unison. This has been shown by a study from the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg that examined the health effects for choir members. Researchers at the Academy are studying how music, in purely biological terms, affects our body and our health....

Author: Natasha Inskip Dr Karen Strier is Vilas Research Professor and Irven DeVore Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. With a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University, her current research is based in the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil, studying one of the world’s most endangered primates, the Northern muriqui. In June 2023, she will be celebrating 40 years of this continuous field study on the same population of this species....

In just 5 years, Frontiers in Plant Science has become the 3rd largest and the 7th most-cited Plant Science journal in the world. The Impact Factor (IF), defined as the total number of citations in a given year divided by the number of citable articles over the previous two-year period, is the most commonly accepted metric of journal quality (but not of an individual paper or researcher). It was formally established by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in 1975....