For those who’ve been paying attention, you’ll have noticed that we just published an interesting Perspective in PLOS Biology from Dominique Roche…
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Biology Opening Up Data Access, Not Just ArticlesRead more
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Biology Will Stem Cell Therapy Help Cure Spinal Cord Injury?Read more
Spinal cord injuries are mostly caused by trauma, often incurred in road traffic or sporting incidents, often with devastating and irreversible consequences…
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Announcement Holiday reading with PLOS GeneticsRead more
Do you have a reading list this holiday season? Unsure what to buy for your lab’s Secret Santa this year? Here at…
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Biology Reconstructing gene regulatory networks, dreading future pain and the About My Lab collection: the PLOS Comp Biol November issueRead more
Here is our selection PLOS Computational Biology highlights for November. The study of gene regulatory networks is essential to understanding how diseases…
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Biology A Faster Reset Button for Stem CellsRead more
Being able to restore function to organs damaged through disease or injury is a goal that has not only inspired work on…
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Bioinformatics microRNAs: targeting seeds of destructionRead more
A central dogma of biology goes like this: the DNA of genes is copied (‘transcribed’) to make messenger RNA (mRNA), and mRNA…
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Biology From Jellyfish GFPs to Plant MiniSOGs; a Microscopy Revolution.Read more
I’m a firm believer that a picture tells a thousand words, and in biomedical sciences advances in microscopy can only add…
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Advocacy Naïve, Crazy Idealists Make GoodRead more
Ten years ago this month, PLOS ventured into the world of scientific publishing by launching its flagship journal, PLOS Biology. When Harold…
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Bioinformatics The First Individual Genome: One Is the Loneliest NumberRead more
When Craig Venter published the complete sequence of his genome in PLOS Biology in 2007, in some ways, it was old news…
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Announcement The Significance of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the Challenges AheadRead more
Following the announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, PLOS Computational Biology Editor-in-Chief Ruth Nussinov discusses the implications of this award…
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Biology Scanning for Recent Human EvolutionRead more
Survival of the fittest is a concept that is well known to most of us. Heaven knows, many of us strive to…
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Biology The Birth of the Ecosystem within UsRead more
When Chana Palmer started collecting baby poop from new mothers in 2006, few outside the halls of academia had heard anything about…