In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about the notion of the “balance of nature“, female mate choice in fruit flies…
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Biology This week in PLOS Biology
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Biology How Much of Your Genome Is Functional?
On the 24th of July, 2014 PLOS Genetics published an article entitled: “8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained: Variation in Rates…
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Biology This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about cataloging microbial life, how spider silk is made, a new class of Alzheimer’s…
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Biology FASEB Summer Research Conference on Dynamic DNA Structures in Biology: Sergei Mirkin
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings this year…
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Biology This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about meeting biodiversity targets, sequencing microbial life, a new piece of the Nodal pathway…
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Announcement How Will We Feed the World?
PLOS has just launched a new Collection, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s why we did it, and what we hope…
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Biology This week in PLOS Biology
In PLOS Biology this week you can read about new ways to approach preclinical trials, signaling in the vertebrate retina, how Leishmania…
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Bioinformatics The First Individual Genome: One Is the Loneliest Number
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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Biology Scanning for Recent Human Evolution
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 Us
When Chana Palmer started collecting baby poop from new mothers in 2006, few outside the halls of academia had heard anything about…
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Biology Putting CpG islands on the map
You won’t find CpG islands on any ocean chart, but they do feature in a different sort of map – the…
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Biology Mycobacteria get all the advantages of sex with none of the downside
Despite the sales pitch, sex is frankly a bit of a hassle, isn’t it? The champagne, the flowers, the desultory conversations…