In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about the notion of the “balance of nature“, female mate choice in fruit flies…

On the 24th of July, 2014 PLOS Genetics published an article entitled: “8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained: Variation in Rates…

In PLOS Biology this week you can read about cataloging microbial life, how spider silk is made, a new class of Alzheimer’s…

As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings this year…

In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about meeting biodiversity targets, sequencing microbial life, a new piece of the Nodal pathway…

PLOS has just launched a new Collection, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s why we did it, and what we hope…

In PLOS Biology this week you can read about new ways to approach preclinical trials, signaling in the vertebrate retina, how Leishmania…

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

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…

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

Despite the sales pitch, sex is frankly a bit of a hassle, isn’t it? The champagne, the flowers, the desultory conversations…