Spinal cord injuries are mostly caused by trauma, often incurred in road traffic or sporting incidents, often with devastating and irreversible consequences…
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Biology Will Stem Cell Therapy Help Cure Spinal Cord Injury?
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Biology Reconstructing gene regulatory networks, dreading future pain and the About My Lab collection: the PLOS Comp Biol November issue
Here is our selection PLOS Computational Biology highlights for November. The study of gene regulatory networks is essential to understanding how diseases…
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Conference PLOS Biology at SfN 2013: Open for Neuroscience
At PLOS Biology, we believe strongly that we are open for a reason: our aim is to publish high quality research in…
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Bioinformatics Controlling medically-induced comas, deciding not to decide, and a note from the Editor-in-Chief: the PLOS Comp Biol October issue
Here’s our pick of the best PLOS Computational Biology content for October. In a step towards improving the process of sedation, Maryam…
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Biology We Have the Technology…
“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin…
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Biology It’s official – the animal study literature is biased… but whose fault is it?
Testing a new drug on human subjects is expensive, risky and ethically complex, so the vast majority of potential treatments are…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the Media
The holiday period was a rather busy time at PLOS Biology, with a number of our published articles receiving significant attention both…
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Biology Marking the passing of time
We are constantly tracking the passage of time, from waiting for our kettle to boil to monitoring traffic lights. The ways in…
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Cell biology PLoS Biology round up
In this week’s PLoS Biology roundup, we feature research articles reporting new discoveries, ranging from sleep regulation to the role of heat…