In our latest monthly media coverage roundup, we highlight the top mentions that eLife papers generated in May. You can view the coverage, along with the related research articles, below:
Krause-Kyora et al.’s Short Report, ‘Neolithic and medieval virus genomes reveal complex evolution of hepatitis B’, was mentioned in:
- The New York Times – In Ancient Skeletons, Scientists Discover a Modern Foe: Hepatitis B
- SBS News (Australia) – Scientists discover a modern foe in ancient skeletons: hepatitis B
- Gulf News – Scientists find oldest virus that infected humans from ancient skeletons
- The Economic Times (India) – German scientists decode Stone Age hepatitis B virus
- Le Temps (Geneva) – Discovery of the oldest virus that has contaminated human beings
- Spiegel (Germany) – Researchers decipher hepatitis B virus from the Stone Age
- ABC Science (Spain) – The silent virus that has been killing us for millennia
Burns et al.’s Research Article, ‘Transcriptome analysis illuminates the nature of the intracellular interaction in a vertebrate-algal symbiosis’, was covered in:
- Scientific American – Algae Living inside Salamanders Aren't Happy about the Situation
Wang et al.’s Research Article, ‘First bone-cracking dog coprolites provide new insight into bone consumption in Borophagus and their unique ecological niche’, was highlighted in:
- Nature – Ancient poo reveals extinct dogs crunched big bones
- PLOS Paleo Community – Fossil Friday Roundup: May 25, 2018
- Live Science – Extinct Doggos' Bone-Crushing Diet Preserved in Fossil Poop
Gallo et al.’s Research Article, ‘The causal role of the somatosensory cortex in prosocial behaviour’, was featured in:
- The Times of India – Does brain push you to help the needy?
The various research articles on the discovery of Homo naledi, first published in 2015 and followed up in 2017, were mentioned in:
- Discover – Getting Inside The Head Of Homo Naledi
- Popular Science – How South Africa's 'Cradle of Humankind' got the title
Mukherjee, Ignatowska-Jankowska, Itskovits et al.’s Research Article, ‘Salient experiences are represented by unique transcriptional signatures in the mouse brain’, was picked up in:
- New Scientist (Netherlands edition) – We can read memories from the activity of genes in the brain (translated)
Chia, Zhong, Niwa et al.’s Research Article, ‘A homozygous loss-of-function CAMK2A mutation causes growth delay, frequent seizures and severe intellectual disability’, was mentioned in:
- GenomeWeb – Recessive Mutation May Cause New Neurodevelopmental Disorder
Attwater et al.’s Research Article, ‘Ribozyme-catalysed RNA synthesis using triplet building blocks’, was covered in:
- IFLScience – Scientists Create Self-Replicating Molecules To Explain How Life Began
- Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News – RNA World May Have Started Spinning with Triplet-Based Synthesis
- ANSA (Italy) – Reconstructing the 'copying' of the first life forms (translated)
- Le Scienze (Italy) – RNA and the origin of life
Florio et al.’s Tools and Resources article, ‘Evolution and cell-type specificity of human-specific genes preferentially expressed in progenitors of fetal neocortex’, was mentioned in:
- Zeit (Germany) – The gene that gave us a big brain (translated)
And Chen et al.’s Research Article, ‘Reinstatement of long-term memory following erasure of its behavioral and synaptic expression in Aplysia’, was picked up in:
- 20 minutos (Spain) – Scientists transfer memories between living beings for the first time (translated)
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