In October of 2018 PLOS Biology will celebrate its 15-year anniversary. As of October 2017, we’d published 4,362 articles which have…

Fungi are essential elements of all ecosystems and provide many important services, most notably decomposition. While the classic role of fungi is…

On Monday, PLOS Biology published two articles on citation metric-based evaluation of published research. In the first, a Meta-Research Article (a…

This year’s American Society of Microbiology conference, ASM Microbe 2016, kicks off on June 16th, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. PLOS Biology…

We hope that you’ve been enjoying our blog post series “Slices of PLOS.” These posts were designed to feature research articles…

The Experimental Biology conference is underway in San Diego! PLOS is well represented at the conference, with editors and staff manning booth…

For the first time in its 177-year history, the American Statistical Association (ASA) has voiced its opinion and made specific recommendations for…

Perhaps when you think of bacterial communities you think of a flask full of rapidly dividing E. coli. But in non-lab conditions…

By 2016, most scientifically literate people have come to accept the inevitability of climate change. But what’s much less clear is how…

Think for a moment, if you will, of all the chemicals that you conscientiously and unconsciously are exposed to everyday. Banal, daily-life…

In recent decades the burden of malaria has greatly decreased. This is the result of both successful public health initiatives and widespread…

When we think of antioxidants, we think of good, protective things, like blueberries, red wine, and dark chocolate (God, I love antioxidants). But cancer…