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University of Minnesota A groundbreaking study led by engineering and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shows how engineered immune cells used in new cancer therapies can overcome physical barriers to allow a patient’s own immune system to fight tumors. The research could improve cancer therapies in the future for millions of people worldwide. The research is published in Nature Communications, a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature R...

Open Science Opinion Catriona MacCallum, Hindawi’s Director of Open Science, discusses a historic milestone for scientific publishing. The Royal Society, who created the very first and now longest running scientific journal, has announced its intention to flip four of their key hybrid research journals to Open Access, including their flagship biology journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. They will do this when the proportion of each journal reaches 75% open access, whether this is throu...

May 13, 2021 The Open Access publisher PLOS, and the Training Center in Communication, based at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, (known as TCC Africa) today announced a partnership to ensure that the interests and values of African research communities are represented in PLOS publications, policies, and services. The two organizations will work together to study and co-create pathways to Open Research that work for African researchers and stakeholders within the scholarly community ecosystem, ...

The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs, a study suggests.

 E-Mail Taylor & Francis Group has launched the pilot of a new book publishing concept, Open Plus Books, that fuses the traditional print and Open Access books model with F1000s Open Research publishing model. Open Plus Books will enable authors or book editors to publish a book open access first on the open research platform within just a few days of submission. Each chapter is a standalone piece, enabling chapters to be published as soon as they are accepted, and additional chapters to be ...

Date Time Ankle and foot evolution gave mammals a leg up The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs, a study suggests. Reconstruction of a Paleocene mammal that lived around 65 million years ago. Credit: Sarah Shelley. The evolution of ankle and foot bones into different shapes and sizes helped mammals adapt and thrive after the extinction of the dinosaurs, a study suggests. A surge of evolution fol...

Tough challenges May 12, 2021 Universities in Pakistan have suffered greatly in the last three years because of the misguided policies of the Higher Education Commission and the failure of its leadership to convince the government to provide proper and reasonable funding. The operational budget of the HEC has remained frozen since 2017, causing huge damage to the higher education sector. It was Rs63.18 bln in 2017-18, Rs65.02 bln in 2018-19, Rs64.10 bln 2019-20 and Rs64.10 bln in 2020-21. The...

 E-Mail San Francisco, USA and Nairobi Kenya, May 12, 2021 - The Open Access publisher PLOS, and the Training Center in Communication, based at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, (known as TCC Africa) today announced a partnership to ensure that the interests and values of African research communities are represented in PLOS publications, policies, and services. The two organizations will work together to study and co-create pathways to Open Research that work for African researchers and stakeh...

May 11, 2021 From Albania to Zimbabwe, researchers in 30 developing and transition economy countries can benefit from immediate and fee-free Open Access publishing in The Company of Biologists’ subscription journals following a Read & Publish agreement with Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL). This landmark agreement runs until 31 December 2023 and institutional members of EIFL-partner library consortia in eligible countries can participate free of charge. Researchers in eligible coun...

Phenomenon Underlying Behind Reading Erotic Novels – Disclosed! by Karishma Abhishek on  May 11, 2021 at 11:57 PM Fifty Shades of Grey, a novel by E.L. Jamess that appeared in 2015 had made the whole book market inundated with a flood of erotic bestsellers. People from all corners began wondering what this type of novels secret of success could be. The readership of erotic novels and the causes of this literary predilection is now investigated, i.e., who reads erotic...