April roundup of eLife papers in the news

High profile news coverage that eLife papers generated in April 2017, including the Huffington Post, International Business Times and more.

In the second of our monthly media coverage roundups, we highlight the top mentions that eLife papers generated in April. You can view the coverage, along with the related articles, below:

Lin, Giuliano et al.’s Short Report, ‘ CRISPR/Cas9 mutagenesis invalidates a putative cancer dependency targeted in on-going clinical trials’, was featured in:

  • Nature – CRISPR studies muddy results of older gene research

Blanco-Melo et al.’s Research Article, ‘ Co-option of an endogenous retrovirus envelope for host defense in hominid ancestors’, was mentioned in:

  • International Business Times – Our ancestors defeated a virus from the same family as HIV 11 million years ago
  • PLOS Blogs Network – Fossil Friday Roundup: April 14, 2017
  • Gizmodo – Scientists Unearth Ancient DNA Depicting a Battle Between Viruses and Our Ancestors
  • Lenta (Russia) – Human DNA reveals traces of an ancient extinct virus (translated)
  • Financial Express (India) – Our ancestors defeated virus from HIV family 11 million years ago

Shi et al.’s Research Article, ‘ Identification of Redeye, a new sleep-regulating protein whose expression is modulated by sleep amount’, and Ni, Hou et al.’s Research Article, ‘ Selectively driving cholinergic fibers optically in the thalamic reticular nucleus promotes sleep’, were mentioned in:

  • Huffington Post – What Fruit Flies Can Tell Us About Human Sleep and Circadian Disorders

The Feature Article by Aach et al., ‘ Addressing the ethical issues raised by synthetic human entities with embryo-like features’, was covered in:

  • The Burbank Leader (published by the LA Times) – In Theory: Scientists may soon be able to engineer organs. What does religion have to say about that?

Font et al.’s Research Article, ‘ Optical control of pain in vivo with a photoactive mGlu5 receptor negative allosteric modulator’, was featured in:

  • El País (Spain) – A drug soothes pain only when it receives violet light
  • Gulf News – Pain management: A new hope

And Tafazoli, Safaai et al.’s Research Article, ‘ Emergence of transformation-tolerant representations of visual objects in rat lateral extrastriate cortex’, was mentioned in:

  • La Repubblica (Italy) – Mice offer a new model to study human sight (translated)

If you have any questions about the studies or media mentions listed here, please contact:

Emily Packer, Press Officer, eLife

e.packer@elifesciences.org

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