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| Open Science for Sustainability |
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Faced with growing global problems, we, as scientists know exponential growth in solutions is needed. Frontiers editors explain how industry and research can work together to overcome these problems by building a sustainable future - through Open Science.
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| Young Minds panel takes on hard science at live event |
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A six-member panel of experts ranging in age from 7 to 13 took on hard science on Oct. 29 at the Chabot Space & Science Center in San Francisco. The students were all a part of Frontiers for Young Minds, led by Field Chief Editor Dr. Robert Knight.
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| NEW EDITORS AND RECENT LAUNCHES |
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| New Specialty Section on Veterinary Experimental and Diagnostic Pathology |
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Veterinary pathologists have diverse roles that cover all aspects of research, education, drug discovery, outreach, and public policy. Leading this new section in Frontiers in Veterinary Science is Professor Tracy Stokol from the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University.
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| New Specialty Section on Medical Sociology |
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Led by Chief Editor Professor Hannah Bradby, this new section found in Frontiers in Sociology will consider the social production of health and illness, offering critical perspectives on medicine as culture, business, profession, and practice. Prof. Bradby has worked as a sociologist of health and medicine since the 1990s, and is a professor at Uppsala University in Sweden.
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| INTERVIEWS WITH FRONTIERS SCIENTISTS |
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| | Resilient structural design to combat earthquake disturbances |
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To help buildings become more resilient to earthquakes, scientists like Professor Izuru Takewaki, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Built Environment, have taken measures to analyze various vibrational modes with the goal of creating safe and sustainable structures for future generations.
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| Restoring the world's oceans and seas |
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Angel Borja, Frontiers' Specialty Chief Editor for Marine Ecosystem Ecology, is not completely pessimistic about the world's oceans. Learn why, despite the view that there is no hope left for the world's oceans in the news, he believes differently.
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| Searching for answers in Hernia surgery |
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Hernia surgery is one of the largest fields in general surgery - worldwide there are more than 30 million operations performed each year - but there is still a number of unsolved questions when it comes to treating them. Ferdinand Köckerling, Field Chief Editor for Frontiers in Surgery, explains why.
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| Emerging Sensory Neuroprosthetics: Are they feasible? |
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Currently, retinal implants, vestibular implants, deep-brain stimulation devices and many others are being developed by scientists. But there are many questions that still need answers.
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| When silencing phantom noises is a matter of science |
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Understanding tinnitus is a multi-disciplinary affair, and current knowledge is scattered. Professor Christopher Cederroth wants to solve problems of heterogeneity, in how tinnitus becomes a problem to some but not all people and why they respond differently to treatments.
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| Studying the evolution of Pharmaceutical Innovation after World War II |
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The twentieth century has witnessed an unprecedented advancement of biomedical sciences, especially in drug discovery and design. Surprisingly, the complete history in which pharmaceutical methodology and thinking have developed after World War II is still unknown - and undocumented.
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| Our top 5 most-read eBooks of 2016 are:
1) Plants as Alternative Hosts for Human and Animal Pathogens, hosted by Nicola J. Holden, Robert W. Jackson and Adam Schikora
2) Intra- and Inter-Species Interactions in Microbial Communities, hosted by Luis Raul Comolli, Birgit Luef and Manfred Auer
3) M1/M2 Macrophages: The Arginine Fork in the Road to Health and Disease, hosted by Charles Dudley Mills, Laurel L Lenz and Klaus Ley
4) Neural Masses and Fields: Modelling the Dynamics of Brain Activity, hosted by Dimitris Pinotsis, Peter Robinson, Peter beim Graben and Karl Friston
5) Advances in Farm Animal Genomic Resources, hosted by Stéphane Joost, Michael W. Bruford, Ino Curik, Juha Kantanen, Johannes A. Lenstra, Johann Sölkner, Göran Andersson, Philippe V. Baret, Nadine Buys, Jutta Roosen, Michèle Tixier-Boichard and Paolo Ajmone Marsan
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