The dataset contains the variables used in the study "Who is afraid of ticks and tick-borne diseases? Results from a cross-sectional survey in Scandinavia", by Slunge et al...

The oversupply of postdoctoral scholars relative to available faculty positions has led to calls for better assessment of career outcomes. Here, we report the results of a study...

Background Despite broad consensus on the importance of community and stakeholder engagement (CSE) for guiding the development, regulation, field testing, and deployment of...

Zoonotic disease surveillance is typically triggered after animal pathogens have already infected humans. Are there ways to identify high-risk viruses before they emerge in...

Background Pathogen perception by plants is mediated by plasma membrane-localized immune receptors that have varied extracellular domains. Lectin receptor kinases (LecRKs) are...

Background 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is the most potent congener of the dioxin class of environmental contaminants. Exposure to TCDD causes a wide range of...

Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich...

Background Uncertainty is inevitable in clinical practice in primary care and tolerance for uncertainty and concern for bad outcomes has been shown to vary between physicians....

Science is disproportionately produced at research centers within a few select regions [1],[2]. This distribution contributes to “brain drain”—the cultural and geographical...

Corals and humans represent two extremely disparate metazoan lineages and are therefore useful for comparative evolutionary studies. Two lipid-based molecules that are central...

Background. Capture rate and representativity of quality registers need to be assessed in order to ensure that register data are generalizable.Material and methods. In...

The recent development of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells [1–5] has reshaped the scientific and political landscape of stem cell biology. iPS cells provide an...

Background Delayed or secondary cell death that is caused by a cascade of cellular and molecular processes initiated by traumatic brain injury (TBI) may be reduced or prevented...

AbstractBackgroundTo date, genome-scale analyses in the domestic horse have been limited by suboptimal single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density and uneven genomic coverage...

The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a neuroendocrine system that regulates numerous physiological processes. Disruptions in the activity of the HPA axis are...

Background The presence of comorbid conditions is strongly related to survival and also affects treatment choices in cancer patients. This comorbidity is often quantified by the...

Background: Parents are an important influence on children’s dietary intake and eating behaviors. However, the lack of a conceptual framework and inconsistent...

Background Assessing adverse effects from environmental chemical exposure is integral to public health policies. Toxicology assays identifying early biological changes from...

© 2018 Yarborough et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Millions of people worldwide currently suffer from serious neurological diseases and injuries for which...

Data are the foundation of empirical research, yet all too often the datasets underlying published papers are unavailable, incorrect, or poorly curated. This is a serious issue,...