by Arthur Caplan A scientist named He Jiankui at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, shocked…
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Biotechnology He Jiankui’s Moral Mess
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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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Cell biology Predicting Gene Enhancers; Optimising Vaccine Dose and Modelling Wound Healing
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the October issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Prediction of gene regulatory enhancers across species reveals…
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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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Advocacy Post Removed by PLOS
Statement from PLOS: Please note that this blog post covering the Gordon Research Conference on Craniofacial Morphogenesis and Tissue Regeneration (February 11…
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Biology The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel Therapies
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly…
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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 The XV Collection: Anatomy of a Protein Kinase Spine and How to Break It
by Ann Stock The post-translational addition of phosphate groups to serine, threonine and tyrosine residues is a fundamental strategy for…
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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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Advocacy Gordon Research Seminar and Conference on DNA Topoisomerases in Biology and Medicine (July 28 – August 3, 2018): Lorena Infante Lara
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 The XV Collection: Re-Interpreting Pheromone Signaling
by Piali Sengupta Negative results that call into question a previously proposed model are generally difficult to publish unless they overturn…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – May
This year is flying by, and May was another bumper month at PLOS Biology. In May we’ve covered all things hair…