When Craig Venter published the complete sequence of his genome in PLOS Biology in 2007, in some ways, it was old news…

Following the announcement of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, PLOS Computational Biology Editor-in-Chief Ruth Nussinov discusses the implications of this award…

Survival of the fittest is a concept that is well known to most of us. Heaven knows, many of us strive to…

When Chana Palmer started collecting baby poop from new mothers in 2006, few outside the halls of academia had heard anything about…

When one thinks of the ageing, or ‘senescence’, of organisms, visions of aging and age-related deterioration often come to mind. But we tend…

By Jon Chase Question: What’s the best way to improve the economy of a developing country? Answer: Provide better healthcare to…

You won’t find CpG islands on any ocean chart, but they do feature in a different sort of map – the…

“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin…

Yes, it’s our tenth anniversary this October: ten years ago, in October 2003, PLOS Biology published its very first issue. To…

Geneticist and science writer Ricki Lewis describes a personal journey relating to the BRCA1 “breast cancer gene”, to coincide with the publication…

About a year ago I wrote a blog post here about becoming the chair of the Advisory Board of PLOS Biology (see From…

Educating current and future generations of computational biologists is one of the main objectives of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)…