Image design: Serial/Trash Malaria claims a million lives a year, a majority of which are children, and threatens the lives of billions more within its tropical ranges. It is caused by Plasmodium, a parasite that uses mosquitoes as a way of getting in to and out of humans.
By Aidan Maartens, Post-doc student at the Gurdon Institute Note: Aidan was awarded third place in this year’s Access to Understanding competition. Check back tomorrow to read his winning entry! Congratulations Aidan!
Image Source: Serial/Trash People have little trouble recognising and following the beat in a piece of music. We can even continue to play the beat in our minds once a song has finished.
By Elizabeth Kirkham, PhD student at the University of Sheffield Note: Elizabeth was the winner of this year’s Access to Understanding competition. Check back tomorrow to read her winning entry! It has also been published by eLife. Congratulations Elizabeth!
Image design: Serial/Trash New research challenges common beliefs about the origin of the disease and draws attention to the nerve cells’ ability to tidy up. Parkinson’s disease is a devastating neurological disorder where nerve cells in the brain slowly degenerate and die.
Last night marked the Access to Understanding 2014 science-writing competition award ceremony. At its heart, the competition is a celebration. It celebrates the commitment and enthusiasm of early career researchers to share scientific advances with an interested public audience.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our first ever People’s Choice Award for the Access to Understanding science-writing competition! This award gives you – the public – the opportunity to read our shortlisted entries and have your say.
The Access to Understanding science-writing competition 2014 attracted over 260 entrants. As an international competition we were thrilled to receive entries from 14 different countries. This map pinpoints the different cities around the world from which we received entries.
Our External Links Service means that we link out to free resources that enrich our articles.
Europe PMC has added protein and chemical structures from Protein Data Bank (PDB) and ChEBI via the BioEntities tab.
In 2012 the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research made funding available to help launch brand new open access journals in the humanities and social sciences (HSS), or to convert existing journals from the traditional subscription model to open access.