Media Coverage: September roundup of eLife papers in the news

Rademacher, Doric, Haddad et al.’s Research Article, ‘Chronic hyperactivation of midbrain dopamine neurons causes preferential dopamine neuron degeneration’, was covered in:

• Parkinson’s News Today – Overactive dopamine cells may drive Parkinson’s brain damage
• The Times of India and MSN – Breakthrough study offers hope for slowing down Parkinson’s disease
• Science Alert – Parkinson's Disease Could Be Ignited by Burned-Out Brain Cells
• Health and Me – Parkinson’s Mystery Cracked? Study Finds Brain Cells May Be Burning Themselves Out
• Ana News Agency and SciTechDaily – Overworked Brain Cells May Hold the Key to Parkinson’s

Rugani et al.’s Research Article, ‘Prenatal light exposure affects number sense and the mental number line in young domestic chicks’, was featured in:

• Neuroscience News – Left or Right? Brain’s Split Determines How We Map Numbers
• News Medical – Brain lateralization shapes the mental number line in newborn chicks

This study was also highlighted in the eLife press release, ‘Brain asymmetry shapes direction of mental number line in early life’.

Berger et al.’s Research Article, ‘Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi’, was picked up in:

• Archaeology News – Evidence shows Homo naledi deliberately buried their dead
• The Jerusalem Post – Older than Neanderthal rites? New papers double down on the Homo naledi burial hypothesis

Matthijs van Veelen’s Reviewed Preprint, ‘The general version of Hamilton’s rule’, was mentioned in:

• Earth.com – Why we help: The hidden math behind cooperation

Le Roy et al.’s Research Article, ‘Adaptations in wing morphology rather than wingbeat kinematics enable flight in small hoverfly species’, was covered in:

• Bioengineer.org – Wing Shape Adaptations Enable Small Hoverflies to Maintain Flight

This study was also featured in the eLife press release, ‘Changes in wing shape help small hoverflies stay aloft’.

Xie et al.’s Research Article, ‘Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex classification of somatic tissues’, was highlighted in:

• IFL Science – “A Mosaic Spectrum Of Sex Characteristics”: Most Organs In Our Bodies Don’t Fit The Male-Female Sex Binary

Sakai et al.’s Research Article, ‘Coral anthozoan-specific opsins employ a novel chloride counterion for spectral tuning’, was highlighted in:

• Asia Research News – How eye-less corals see the light
• Optics & Photonics News – How Corals See Without Eyes

Uveira et al.’s Reviewed Preprint, ‘Planar cell polarity coordination in a cnidarian embryo provides clues to animal body axis evolution’, was picked up in:

• Bioengineer.org – Cell Polarity Guides Jellyfish Larval Development Along a Central Axis

This study was also featured in the eLife press release, ‘Cell polarity coordinates jellyfish larval development along a central axis’.

1. Emily Packer
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