September’s issue image depicts the work of Monteiro et al, which presents a molecular mechanism for the control of phenotypic plasticity in…
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Biology Understanding Images: How Butterflies ‘Wink’ Only Some of their Eyespots in Response to TemperatureRead more
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Biology Understanding Images: Seeing Myopia for What it Is- Potentially TreatableRead more
In a post reflecting on August’s PLOS Genetics issue image, Andrei Tkatchenko explains the science behind the image. Author: Andrei V. Tkatchenko…
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Biology Understanding Images: A Genetic Framework in Legumes Controls Infection of NodulesRead more
In a piece reflecting on June’s PLOS Genetics issue image, authors Simon Kelly and Simona Radutoiu discuss the science behind their…
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Advocacy Any Questions about our Data Policy?Read more
by PLOS Biology, PLOS Genetics and PLOS Computational Biology Publication is the end of one journey, but the beginning of another (longer)…
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Biology Publishing to Keep up with EbolaRead more
As you read this, thread-like viruses less than one micron in length are spreading through human populations in West Africa, taking lives…
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Biology Media response: forecasting diseases using WikipediaRead more
“It’s a perfect mix of exciting science, modern everyday technology, and public health.” Dr Marcel Salathé Many of us use Wikipedia solely as…
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Biology This week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about the evolution of thermostable proteins, the Addgene initiative, microenvironment influence on tumour metastasis…
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Biology How Much of Your Genome Is Functional?Read more
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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Announcement Meet the “PLOSSE” at ISMB 2014Read more
Heading to the ISCB’s annual conference, ISMB 2014, July 11– 15, in Boston this year? Swing by Booth 409 and say hello…
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Announcement How Will We Feed the World?Read more
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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Bioinformatics Reviewing software and code: an updateRead more
On June 14th 2013 Mozilla Science Lab announced their collaboration with PLOS Computational Biology. The collaboration was a trial series of software…
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Announcement PLOS Biology at ASCB 2013: Open for Cell BiologyRead more
At PLOS Biology, we strongly believe that we are open for a reason: our aim is to publish high quality research in…