Put Your Best Figure Forward: Line Graphs and Scattergrams

Put your best figure forward: line graphs and scattergrams.

There is an old saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” In truth, only a well-prepared, selfexplanatory picture is worth a thousand words. The same holds true for research studies, for which 1 of the main methods we use to communicate our message is in figures and graphs. Figures and graphs tell much of the story by giving readers a visual anchor to help them see, understand, and rem...

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Nestling birds put their best flange forward

The offspring of caring parents may evolve specialized traits uniquely adaptive during their dependence on parental care. For example, the mouths of passerine nestlings are often bordered by enlarged and colorful rictal flanges expressed only during the nestling period. Although these traits are commonly hypothesized to act as visual signals during begging, noncommunication functions for the sp...

How to Put Your Best Self Forward in Plastic Surgery Residency Interviews.

The annual American Society of Plastic Surgeons’ “Plastic Surgery: The Meeting” is always filled with great educational events and endeavors, and the 2015 gathering in Boston was truly exceptional. Perhaps the most memorable and most rewarding panel that we had the honor and pleasure to be a part of was the Medical Student Session, moderated by one of the first Plastic and Reconstructive Surger...

Smooth muscle cells put their best podosome forward

IFT proteins go off the rails F lagella and cilia serve as molecular highways. Sedmak and Wolfrum have for the fi rst time tracked down several key proteins involved in this transport. They also discovered the proteins in cells that have neither cilia nor fl agella, indicating that the molecules have additional functions. Traffi c in cilia and fl agella runs in both directions. Kinesin motors h...