Author: Jamy C. Peng, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA Competing Interests: Jamy C. Peng is an author of the…
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Biology Understanding Images: Animal fertility governed by small non-coding RNAs
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Announcement In Celebration of Open Data
It’s not every day I get to write something that is just fun. In celebration of OpenCon, and to recognise all…
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post PLOS Biology meta-research article finds female scientists collaborate differently and face an uneven STEM playing field; a Primer places these findings in context
In a much-discussed PLOS Biology meta-research article published on Friday (11/4/16), Differences in Collaboration Patterns across Discipline, Career Stage, and Gender, researchers from…
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Computational biology How anatomy affects functional connectivity, how neural noise impacts coding strategies, & how forgetting helps us learn: the PLOS Comp Biol October Issue
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology October issue: Functional Connectivity’s Degenerate View of Brain Computation The human brain…
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Biology Understanding Images: MicroRNAs Control Molting of Locusts
Author: Meiling Yang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Competing Interests: Meiling Yang is an author of the article discussed in…
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Cell biology Brain Dynamics during Sleep, the Worm Connectome, and eQTL Networks: the PLOS Comp Biol September Issue
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology September issue: A Thalamocortical Neural Mass Model of the EEG during NREM…
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Advocacy Making the Case for Basic Research
Scientists stuck on the grant-seeking treadmill may find comfort in the results of a recent report from the National Science Foundation. Eighty-five…
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Biology Slice of PLOS: A Fungus Among Us
Fungi are essential elements of all ecosystems and provide many important services, most notably decomposition. While the classic role of fungi is…
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Announcement PLOS Genetics Research Prize 2016: Winner Announced
The PLOS Genetics Editors-in-Chief and Senior Editors would like to congratulate: Santiago Naranjo, Justin D. Smith, Carlo G. Artieri, Mian Zhang, Yiqi…
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Community Shaping Neural Circuits, Human Brain Region Development, and Predicting the Future: the PLOS Comp Biol August Issue
Check out our highlights from the PLOS Computational Biology August issue: Shaping Neural Circuits by High Order Synaptic Interactions Plasticity…
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Advocacy Double bill on citation metrics: A new alternative to the Impact Factor plus a handy guide to citation normalization
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 2016
We are pleased to invite you to attend a PLOS Computational Biology Symposium at the National Institutes of Health. The details of…