In our latest monthly media coverage roundup, we highlight the top mentions that eLife papers generated in December. You can view the coverage, along with the related research articles, below:
Nakano et al.’s Research Article, ‘Glucose inhibits cardiac muscle maturation through nucleotide biosynthesis’, was mentioned in:
- The Independent – Obesity epidemic puts more pressure on already struggling maternity units, midwives say
Harrap et al.’s Research Article, ‘The diversity of floral temperature patterns, and their use by pollinators’, was featured in:
- IFLScience – Flowers Use Heat Patterns To Attract Pollinators, And Bees Can Sense This
- Der Standard (Austria) – Flowers show bees invisible patterns (translated)
- Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA; Italy) – Flowers can even attract bees with heat (translated)
- Gizmodo – Flowers Express 'Invisible' Heat Patterns to Attract Bees
Vahdat et al.’s Research Article, ‘Network-wide reorganization of procedural memory during NREM sleep revealed by fMRI’, was mentioned in:
- The Financial Times – FT Health: 2017 in review
Mhatre et al.’s Research Article, ‘Tree crickets optimize the acoustics of baffles to exaggerate their mate-attraction signal’, was featured in:
- Science – Choosing to amplify
The Research Article by Yu Shi and Fanxin Long, ‘Hedgehog signaling via Gli2 prevents obesity induced by high-fat diet in adult mice’, was covered in:
- Times Now News (India) – Eating high-fat foods can help you lose weight – Here's the proof
- Economic Times (India) – Want to lose weight and not compromise on eating? Try a high-fat diet
- International Business Times – Scientists Trick Fat Cells To Prevent Obesity
- Xinhua (China) – Obesity prevention may become easier with fat cell control: study
Lagator et al.’s Research Article, ‘On the mechanistic nature of epistasis in a canonical cis-regulatory element’, was covered in:
- Die Presse (Austria) – Evolution with a lot of mutation (translated)
The Tools and Resources article by Zaaijer et al., ‘Rapid re-identification of human samples using portable DNA sequencing’, was mentioned in:
- The Financial Express (India) – DNA deciphering: Why this new research will draw privacy activists’ ire
- The Indian Express – New system can identity people from their DNA in minutes
- The Hindu – This software can identify people from their DNA in minutes
- Digital Trends – In just a few minutes, this software can verify your identity from a bit of DNA
Heintzman et al.’s Research Article, ‘A new genus of horse from Pleistocene North America’, was featured in:
- PLOS Blogs – Fossil Friday Roundup: December 1, 2017
- Der Standard – Surprise: Ice Age Animal was not quite a horse
Robert et al.’s Research Article, ‘Sequestration and activation of plant toxins protect the western corn rootworm from enemies at multiple trophic levels’, was picked up in:
- Der Standard – Why a dangerous bioinvasion with worms is unstoppable (translated)
And Whitford et al.’s Research Article, ‘Neurophysiological evidence of efference copies to inner speech’, was covered in:
- The Irish Examiner – Talking to yourself? Here’s the science behind that little voice in your head
For any questions about the studies or media mentions listed here, please contact:
Emily Packer, Senior Press Officer
eLife
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