Episode 5 of the monthly podcast CellOut, where your favorite pair of biology nerds, Derek DeVries and Ford Fishman, summarize and discuss a sample of articles from the May 2022 issue of PLoS biology.

Issue Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/issue?id=10.1371/issue.pbio.v20.i05

Keywords: biology, life science, open access, scientific journals, science, PLoS, pandemic, coral, climate change, paleobiology, neuroscience

SHOW NOTES

Podcast Art - Credit Caroline DeVries

Episode Cover Art - May 2022 PLoS Biology Cover. Image Credit: Dr Charlotte G Kenchington

Cutting Edge (1:33)

Rice BL, Lessler J, McKee C, Metcalf CJE (2022) Why do some coronaviruses become pandemic threats when others do not? PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001652. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001652

Jargon Jungle (9:05)

Thanks to Jess for coming on the show!

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Journal Club (20:07)

Portilho-Ramos RdC, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Siccha Rojas MG, Yokoyama Y, Hebbeln D (2022) Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001628. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001628

Cell Culture (44:17)

Arrival - Villeneuve, Denis. Arrival. Paramount Pictures, 2016.

Derek's song uses the tune and chords from "I'm with you" by Vance Joy, it is a sad parody and not at all original.

Bite-Size Discoveries (42:21)

Eden R, Manica A, Mitchell EG (2022) Metacommunity analyses show an increase in ecological specialisation throughout the Ediacaran period. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001289. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001289

Shafik SH, Richards SN, Corry B, Martin RE (2022) Mechanistic basis for multidrug resistance and collateral drug sensitivity conferred to the malaria parasite by polymorphisms in PfMDR1 and PfCRT. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001616. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001616

Petre B, Kragel P, Atlas LY, Geuter S, Jepma M, Koban L, et al. (2022) A multistudy analysis reveals that evoked pain intensity representation is distributed across brain systems. PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001620. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001620

von Kortzfleisch VT, Ambrée O, Karp NA, Meyer N, Novak J, Palme R, et al. (2022) Do multiple experimenters improve the reproducibility of animal studies? PLoS Biol 20(5): e3001564. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001564