Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
This week PLOS Biology experiments with new ways of communicating conservation science in a special collection — Conservation Stories from the Front Lines. The articles in the collection present rigorous and significant conservation science, but do
Donald Trump had been president less than a week when he vowed to slash regulations by 75 percent. Within two weeks of taking office he’d ordered agencies to rescind two regulations for every new rule.
Mounting research suggests that psychedelics, used in a controlled psychotherapy setting, have the potential to alleviate conditions that don’t respond to conventional drugs and therapy and may help neuroscientists interrogate the neural basis of consciousness, by using advanced imaging techniques to map changes in brain activity and chemistry to altered perception, moods and perspective.
Think for a moment, if you will, of all the chemicals that you conscientiously and unconsciously are exposed to everyday. Banal, daily-life things like toothpaste, cosmetics, food additives, pharmaceuticals. They are composed of manufactured chemicals,