In our latest monthly media coverage roundup, we highlight the top mentions that eLife papers generated in March. You can view the coverage, along with the related research articles, below:
Raghavan et al.’s Research Article, ‘Antibodies to repeat-containing antigens in Plasmodium falciparum are exposure-dependent and short-lived in children in natural malaria infections’, was featured in:
- Medical Xpress – An age-old battle: Scientists uncover what makes malaria such a wily foe
Moeller et al.’s Research Article, ‘Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game,’ was featured in:
- Mirage News – Who Gets Higher Reward: You or Me?
Rose et al.’s Research Article, ‘Dating the origin and spread of specialization on human hosts in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes’, was featured in:
- Science – Slave trade records help reveal when first yellow fever mosquitoes bit humans
- De Standaard (Belgium) – How the yellow fever mosquito conquered the world (translated)
- National Geographic (Hungary) – The slave trade, drought and mosquitoes (translated)
Haddad et al.’s Research Article, ‘Fever integrates antimicrobial defences, inflammation control, and tissue repair in a cold-blooded vertebrate’, was featured in:
- Infosalus (Spain) – Do you have a slight fever? It’s best not to take medication (translated)
- Pourquoi Docteur (France) – Moderate fever: why taking medicine should not be automatic (translated)
- Quotidiano Sanità (Italy) – A mild fever helps clear infections faster (translated)
- ABP Live – Waiting For A Mild Fever To Run Its Course Before Reaching For Medication Helps Clear Infections Faster
- Niezalezna (Poland) – A mild fever might help you deal with infections faster (translated)
- Nauka W Polsce (Poland) – A mild fever helps you deal with infections faster (translated)
- OnMed (Greece) – Why we shouldn’t take medicine to drop fevers (translated)
Pierson Smela et al.’s Research Article, ‘Directed differentiation of human iPSCs to functional ovarian granulosa-like cells via transcription factor overexpression’, was featured in:
- The Boston Globe – Boston scientists say they’re a step closer to growing human eggs in the lab
Hodel et al.’s Research Article, ‘Associations of genetic and infectious risk factors with coronary heart disease,’ was featured in:
- Diabetes.co.uk – Cardiovascular disease can be triggered by mouth bacteria
- Gacenta Dental (Spain) – Oral bacteria may increase heart disease risk (translated)
- InfoDent24 (Poland) – Oral bacteria increase the risk of heart disease (translated)
Meissner et al.’s Tools and Resources article, ‘A searchable image resource of Drosophila GAL4 driver expression patterns with single neuron resolution’, was featured in:
- Scientific Russia – 74,000 Images of the Brain of a Fruit Fly Have Appeared in the Public Domain (translated)
Ahadi et al.’s Research Article, ‘Longitudinal fundus imaging and its genome-wide association analysis provide evidence for a human retinal aging clock’, was featured in:
- StudyFinds – Retinal scans could be a non-invasive, inexpensive way to track human aging
- EuroNews (Turkey) – The most accurate way to determine biological age is to scan the retina of the eye (translated)
- CNN Türk (Turkey) – Research into determining biological age: Retinal scan yields more accurate results (translated)
Gill et al.’s Research Article, ‘Multi-omic rejuvenation of human cells by maturation phase transient reprogramming’, was mentioned in:
- Inverse – The Cellular Reset: Inside the Scientific Pursuit of a Universal Cure
Tope et al.’s Research Article, ‘The impact of lag time to cancer diagnosis and treatment on clinical outcomes prior to the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses’, was featured in:
Healio – Standardized methods needed to measure lag time between cancer diagnosis, treatment
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