Here are some highlights from April’s PLOS Computational Biology How We Hear Time within Sound How does our auditory system represent…
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Biology How it Works: the PLOS Computational Biology April Issue
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Biology Restoring vision with a new optogenetic tool
Millions of people worldwide suffer from progressive degeneration of the eye’s photoreceptors (the light-sensing cells), leading ultimately to blindness. A recent therapeutic…
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Biology Stressed to Death: Overcoming Drug Resistance in Malaria Parasites
In recent decades the burden of malaria has greatly decreased. This is the result of both successful public health initiatives and widespread…
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Biology Tumor evolution and microbial forensics: the PLOS Comp Biol March Issue
Here are some highlights from March’s PLOS Computational Biology Spatial Heterogeneity in Drug Concentrations Acquired resistance is one of the major…
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Biology Understanding Images: Golden Retrievers Contribute to Cancer Research
This continues our series of blog posts from PLOS Genetics about our monthly issue images. Author Kerstin Lindblad-Toh discusses February’s issue image from…
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Biology Chromosome Biology: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
It might be hard to believe, but 2015 marks ten years of PLOS Genetics! To celebrate ten years of hard work, research…
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Biology Starch, Oil, Water and Arsenic: New Plant Translational Research
by Christina Kary PLOS launched a Collection last year, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s an update on how it’s…
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Biology Understanding images: A giant single-celled plant
This continues our series of blog posts from PLOS Genetics about our monthly issue images. Author Daniel Chitwood discusses January’s issue image…
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Biology This Week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about shrinking the gap between patients and researchers, cookie-cutting membrane perforators, the breakdown of…
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Biology The ethics of big data: Focus Feature
Written by Jason Papin, Deputy-Editor-in-Chief for PLOS Computational Biology There has been a recent explosion of big data due to the development…
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Biology This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about a fundamental step in the making of plant oils and the pitfalls of…
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Biology Toward True Public Engagement in Science
As California struggles with a measles epidemic brought on by vaccine-refusing parents and surveys reveal that 80 percent of Americans support mandatory…