The first in our series following on from the PLOS Genetics Deep Reads article “Recommendations from Jane Gitschier’s Bookshelf” comes from Christine…
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Biology Deep Reads: Christine Weber reflects on lab life and becoming a scientistRead more
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Biology This Week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read how plant pathogens convert flowers to leaves, how gut bugs might suppress bowel inflammation…
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post Wearable science: The 2014 PLOS Comp Biol T-shirt competitionRead more
What do you want to see on the front of this year’s PLOS Comp Biol t-shirt? Enter our fifth annual t-shirt competition…
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post An Invitation to Contribute to the Second Life of the Synthetic Biology CollectionRead more
Synthetic Biologist Dr. Jean Peccoud introduces a major rejuvenation of the PLOS Synthetic Biology Collection and calls on the community to…
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Bioinformatics The dynamical relationship of brain structure and function, environmental factors affecting autism and a budgie’s flight path: the PLOS Comp Biol March issueRead more
Here is our selection of highlights published in PLOS Computational Biology for March. The relationship between brain structure and function is a…
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Biology This week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about animals’ adaptability to climate change, generation of antibody diversity, age-related sleep problems, economic…
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Announcement The Pick of RECOMB 2014Read more
Keen bioinformaticians will soon be on their way to the RECOMB 2014 conference, this year held in Pittsburgh, USA, April 2nd -5th…
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Biology This week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about saving the world’s fish stocks, the intricacies of insect flight, non-human drumming, a…
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Biology How Do Flies Fly?Read more
It’s time to give some thought to how a blowfly, or actually any flight-capable creature flies. We circle back to physics…
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Community The European Conference on Fungal Genetics: Luis Corrochano and Joe HeitmanRead more
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 This week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about neurons involved in circadian rhythms, decision-making in rats, modulation of a key cancer…
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Biology Collective behaviour, RAS and DNA repair, Semaphorin’s role in reproduction: this week in PLOS BiologyRead more
Systems biology looks at the big picture of complex interactions within biological systems; one example is collective behaviour, where a system comprising…