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I drink for my liver, Doc: emerging evidence that coffee prevents cirrhosis [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/59o]
Jordan J. Feld, Élise G. Lavoie, Fausther Michel, Jonathan A Dranoff

“This review is designed to examine the relevant clinical and epidemiological data in critical fashion and to examine the putative pharmacological effects of coffee relevant to the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. We hope that this will inspire relevant critical analyses, especially among “coffee skeptics”.”

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Portrayed emotions in the movie “Forrest Gump” [v1; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/55o]
Annika Labs, Theresa Reich, Helene Schulenburg, Manuel Boennen … Anne Katrin Peukmann, Lea Noell Rabe, Franca-Rosa von Sobbe, Michael Hanke

Ant-App-DB: a smart solution for monitoring arthropods activities, experimental data management and solar calculations without GPS in behavioral field studies [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/59a]
Zeeshan Ahmed, Saman Zeeshan, Pauline Fleischmann, Wolfgang Rössler, Thomas Dandekar

Antiviral therapies against Ebola and other emerging viral diseases using existing medicines that block virus entry [v2; ref status: indexed, https://f1000r.es/52g]
Jason Long, Edward Wright, Eleonora Molesti, Nigel Temperton, Wendy Barclay