Scientific Correspondence

Scientific Correspondence allows authors to challenge the central findings of a published paper, and gives the original authors an opportunity to respond.

Latest articles

    1. Neuroscience

    Comment on 'Accumbens cholinergic interneurons dynamically promote dopamine release and enable motivation'

    James Taniguchi, Riccardo Melani ... Nicolas X Tritsch
    We are writing to comment on the article by Mohebi et al., 2023: we show that blue light alters the fluorescent properties of a genetically-encoded dopamine sensor in a manner that may be misconstrued as phasic dopamine release.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Comment on 'The clinical pharmacology of tafenoquine in the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis'

    Raman Sharma, Chao Chen ... Panayota Bird
    We are writing to comment on the article by Watson et al., 2022 about the antimalarial drug tafenoquine.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Response to comment on 'The clinical pharmacology of tafenoquine in the radical cure of Plasmodium vivax malaria: An individual patient data meta-analysis'

    James A Watson, Robert J Commons ... Nicholas J White
    We are writing to respond to comment by Sharma et al, 2024 on our article about the antimalarial drug tafenoquine.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Comment on 'Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs'

    Nigel K Anderson, Doris Preininger, Matthew J Fuxjager
    We are writing to comment on the article by Zhao et al., 2023 about limb movements in male little torrent frogs.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Response to comment on 'Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs'

    Longhui Zhao, Wouter Halfwerk, Jianguo Cui
    We are writing to respond to the comment by Anderson et al., 2023 on our article about limb movements in male little torrent frogs (Zhao et al., 2022).
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Response to comment on 'A conserved strategy for inducing appendage regeneration in moon jellyfish, Drosophila, and mice'

    Yutian Li, Anish A Sarma ... Lea Goentoro
    We are writing to respond to the comment by Sustar and Tuthill, 2023 on our article about appendage regeneration in jellyfish, fruit flies, and mice (Abrams et al., 2021).
    1. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine

    Comment on 'A conserved strategy for inducing appendage regeneration in moon jellyfish, Drosophila, and mice'

    Anne Sustar, John C Tuthill
    We are writing to comment on the article by Abrams et al., 2021 about appendage regeneration in jellyfish, fruit flies, and mice.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Comment on ‘Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei

    Keith R Matthews, Stephen Larcombe
    We are writing to comment on the article by Schuster et al., 2021 about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Response to comment on 'Unexpected plasticity in the life cycle of Trypanosoma Brucei'

    Jaime Lisack, Brooke Morriswood, Markus Engstler
    We are writing to respond to the comment by Matthews and Larcombe, 2022 on our article about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei (Schuster et al., 2021).
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Comment on ‘SARS-CoV-2 suppresses anticoagulant and fibrinolytic gene expression in the lung’

    Ethan S FitzGerald, Amanda M Jamieson
    We are writing to comment on an article by Mast et al., 2021, about the drivers of coagulopathy in the lungs of COVID-19 patients.