Looking back: Toxic PCB levels in European orcas and other dolphins
Earlier in 2016 Scientific Reports celebrated its fifth anniversary. You can view our interactive infographic and blogs marking this occasion here. Read more
Looking back: The mystery of Knut, the famous polar bear
Earlier in 2016 Scientific Reports celebrated its fifth anniversary. You can view our interactive infographic and blogs marking this occasion here. Read more
The astrophysicist on a mission to get more women into physics
“Very often the famous names we know and read about in science are not those of women,” says Professor Jo Dunkley. “To get more young girls studying the subject, we must change cultural perceptions and have more visible female role models.” … Read more
Genetic variants in ‘red hair gene’ associated with increased number of skin cancer mutations
Melanoma patients with genetic variants in the ‘red hair gene’, MC1R, have more mutations in their cancers compared to patients without such variants, found a study published in Nature Communications last week. Carla Daniela Robles Espinoza, one of the authors on the paper, takes us through the findings. Read more
Celebrating impact: How multidisciplinary One Health research produced results for real change in the real world
Guest post by Naomi Marks, project communications manager at the Institute of Development Studies. She managed the communications for the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium and now works with two other multidisciplinary zoonoses-related projects, the Myanmar Pig Partnership, and Livestock, Livelihoods and Health. Read more
Portrait of a Chemist: From a wartime fascination with chemistry to advising inner-city groups
He speaks to Alex Jackson about his lifelong passion for science. Read more
Connecting patients and clinicians: Why patient perspectives matter in research
Vanessa Smith is a patient activist working to raise awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the importance of the patient voice within the medical and research community. Vanessa has severe COPD and recently wrote a patient perspective which was published in npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, an online-only, open access journal devoted to the management of respiratory diseases in primary care. She writes about living with COPD on her blog, COPD in Focus, and can be found on Twitter @vancopd. Read more
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