In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Özge Özgüç explains how curiosity-led side projects helped her keep going after a series of disappointing…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: accepting “the creative cloud” as part of the process
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Biology The XV Collection: A Spotlight on Spottiness
By Sally Lowell Let’s start with a remarkable fact. Cells can, under the right conditions, organise themselves into patterns without any…
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Biology The XV Collection: Auxin Transport — more a River Delta than a Stream
By Mark Estelle The sessile lifestyle of plants is enabled by remarkable developmental plasticity. Plant form is affected by a wide…
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Biology The XV Collection: Living l’AVIDA loca — origins of multicellularity
by Harmit Malik Even before John Maynard Smith formalized the term, evolutionary biologists have been fascinated by major evolutionary transitions…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – July
The year is flying past, and July has been another month with several of our papers making the news. This month…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – June
June has been a busy month at PLOS Biology and this month we’ve covered a whole spectrum of Biology from…
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Biology Biggest Hits – PLOS Biology in the Media in 2017
We’re taking a look back at the articles that have made a splash in the last 12 months, both in terms…
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Computational biology Brain Network Eigenmodes in Health and Disease, Olfactory Learning Without Mushroom Bodies, and Assessing Overlap of Genomic Features: the PLOS Comp Biol June Issue
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology June issue: Brain Network Eigenmodes Provide a Robust and Compact Representation of…
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Biology 18th International Congress of Developmental Biology (June 18 – 22, 2017): Hongyan Wang
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is supporting a number of conferences and meetings…
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Biology Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Mechanisms in Evolution (June 11 – 16, 2017): Ivan Matic
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings…
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Biology Slice of PLOS: The Beauty of Butterflies
Butterflies’ special place in human culture stems from the fact that they have used their wings not only for flight, but as…
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Biology PLOS Biology ICYMI: Festive Five
For many people, the recent festive period was more about spending time with family, eating too much and being generally merry…