Browse our Scientific Correspondence

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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Response to comment on 'The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance'

    Scott W Olesen, Marc Lipsitch, Yonatan H Grad
    We are writing to reply to the comment by Pouwels et al., 2019 about our recent study (Olesen et al., 2018) on antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance.
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Comment on 'Palovarotene reduces heterotopic ossification in juvenile FOP mice but exhibits pronounced skeletal toxicity'

    Maurizio Pacifici, Eileen M Shore
    We are writing to communicate our concerns regarding the recently published study by Lees-Shepard et al. (2018).
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Response to comment on 'Palovarotene reduces heterotopic ossification in juvenile FOP mice but exhibits pronounced skeletal toxicity'

    David J Goldhamer, John B Lees-Shepard
    We respond to concerns expressed by Pacifici and Shore (2019) about our recent paper (Lees-Shepard et al., 2018a).
    1. Cell Biology

    Comment on ‘Orthogonal lipid sensors identify transbilayer asymmetry of plasma membrane cholesterol’

    Kevin C Courtney, Karen YY Fung ... Xiaohui Zha
    We challenge a recent report that most of the cholesterol in the plasma membrane of mammalian cells is in the exofacial leaflet.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology

    Comment on ‘YcgC represents a new protein deacetylase family in prokaryotes’

    Magdalena Kremer, Nora Kuhlmann ... Michael Lammers
    We applied a combined synthetic biological, biochemical and mass-spectrometric approach to show that YcgC is not a member of a novel lysine deacetylase class in prokaryotes.
    1. Neuroscience

    Response to comment on "Magnetosensitive neurons mediate geomagnetic orientation in Caenorhabditis elegans"

    Andres Vidal-Gadea, Chance Bainbridge ... Jonathan Pierce-Shimomura
    A reanalysis of data from a challenge by Landler et al. (2018) and our Vidal-Gadea et al. (2015) study reinforce our original finding that C. elegans is a suitable model system to study magnetoreception.
    1. Neuroscience

    Comment on "Magnetosensitive neurons mediate geomagnetic orientation in Caenorhabditis elegans"

    Lukas Landler, Simon Nimpf ... David A Keays
    Employing blinded controlled methodology we find no evidence for a magnetic sense in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.