By Jonathan Kimmelman Sometimes the life sciences work fantastically, as when insights into fundamental processes are transformed into life-saving treatments…
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Biology The XV Collection: Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal Research
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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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Announcement The GIGA Collection: Invertebrates Galore!
by Gert Wörheide Much of the world’s biodiversity to have evolved over the last 600+ million years of the Earth’s…
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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 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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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…
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Announcement Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize
It’s time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology! In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the “PLOS Computational Biology Research…