Scientists stuck on the grant-seeking treadmill may find comfort in the results of a recent report from the National Science Foundation. Eighty-five…

Fungi are essential elements of all ecosystems and provide many important services, most notably decomposition. While the classic role of fungi is…

On Monday, PLOS Biology published two articles on citation metric-based evaluation of published research. In the first, a Meta-Research Article (a…

The growing interest in the trillions of bacteria that live inside our guts is underlined by the >10,000 people who read…

The landscape of science is always shifting and in the last ten years we’ve seen a significant change brought by revolutionary discoveries…

The 10th FENS Forum of Neuroscience started on July 2nd, 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. PLOS Biology and the rest of the PLOS…

This year’s American Society of Microbiology conference, ASM Microbe 2016, kicks off on June 16th, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. PLOS Biology…

We hope that you’ve been enjoying our blog post series “Slices of PLOS.” These posts were designed to feature research articles…

UPDATE June 8, 2018: PLOS Biology uses the Editorial Manager submission system. Find out how to submit. Today, PLOS Biology blazes a new…

The Experimental Biology conference is underway in San Diego! PLOS is well represented at the conference, with editors and staff manning booth…

This beautiful berry, domesticated in the Americas more than 2500 years ago, and introduced to the Old World in the 16th…

Perhaps when you think of bacterial communities you think of a flask full of rapidly dividing E. coli. But in non-lab conditions…