By Jonathan Kimmelman Sometimes the life sciences work fantastically, as when insights into fundamental processes are transformed into life-saving treatments…
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Biology The XV Collection: Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal ResearchRead more
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Biotechnology He Jiankui’s Moral MessRead more
by Arthur Caplan A scientist named He Jiankui at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, shocked…
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Biology The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel TherapiesRead more
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – AprilRead more
April was a truly diverse month at PLOS Biology. This month we are talking about gravity-defying fungi, representation of endangered species…
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Bioinformatics Bad Identifiers are the Potholes of the Information Superhighway: Take-Home Lessons for ResearchersRead more
By Julie McMurry, Lilly Winfree, Melissa Haendel This is a guest post by three of the authors of a recent…
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Advocacy An Unexpected Perk of our Data PolicyRead more
What happens if you like a study, but find the way that the authors have chosen to present their data unintuitive…
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Biology Slice of PLOS: Psychedelics in the Lab and Clinic: Making Up for Lost TimeRead more
Nearly 50 years ago, psychiatrists lost access to one of the most promising tools they’d found to study consciousness and treat a…
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Announcement Protocols: The Devil is in the DetailsRead more
Hopefully you know already about the PLOS partnership with protocols.io; if you don’t, PLOS announced this almost exactly a month ago. What…
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Advocacy Setting Your Cites on OpenRead more
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about 6 months, the initiative…
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Community Accidents Will Happen… Introducing LabCIRSRead more
Ever wondered how a laboratory (or a scientific research department) should best manage its day-to-day operations? In a recently published PLOS…
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Advocacy Double bill on citation metrics: A new alternative to the Impact Factor plus a handy guide to citation normalizationRead more
On Monday, PLOS Biology published two articles on citation metric-based evaluation of published research. In the first, a Meta-Research Article (a…
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Announcement PLOS Computational Biology Symposium 2016Read more
We are pleased to invite you to attend a PLOS Computational Biology Symposium at the National Institutes of Health. The details of…