Image Credit: Matthew Clay, Sherwood Lab, Duke University Author: David R. Sherwood is an associate professor at the Department of Biology, Duke University…
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Biology Understanding Images: How do Cells Make Invasive Feet?
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Biology Slice of PLOS: The Beauty of Butterflies
Butterflies’ special place in human culture stems from the fact that they have used their wings not only for flight, but as…
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Biology PLOS Biology ICYMI: Festive Five
For many people, the recent festive period was more about spending time with family, eating too much and being generally merry…
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Biology Slice of PLOS: Mesocosms and Climate Change
By 2016, most scientifically literate people have come to accept the inevitability of climate change. But what’s much less clear is how…
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Advocacy Meta-Research: Getting the Most Out of Research
Scientific research, often portrayed as the acme of human rigorous thought, is actually an activity that’s grown rather organically over the centuries…
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Bioinformatics Slice of PLOS: The Awesomeness of Bats
Just how awesome are bats? It’s easy to forget that one in five species of mammal on this planet have wings capable…
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Biology Gene Ontology Reorganized, Resistance to Imatinib, and Single-Cell Expression Data: the PLOS Comp Biol November Issue
Header Image Credit: Maesani et al. Here are our highlights from November’s PLOS Computational Biology: Finding New Order in Biological Functions from the…
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Biology Understanding Images: Host Gender and the Response to Fungal Infection
Authors: Niklaus Zemp is a Post Doctoral Researcher and Alex Widmer is a Professor, both based at the Institute of Integrative Biology…
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Biology Understanding Images: How Butterflies ‘Wink’ Only Some of their Eyespots in Response to Temperature
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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Announcement The PLOS Genetics Tenth Anniversary Collection
As part of the PLOS Genetics Tenth Anniversary celebrations, we’re launching a special anniversary collection to highlight the best of PLOS Genetics…
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Biology Understanding Images: Seeing Myopia for What it Is- Potentially Treatable
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 Microbiome Evolution, Molecular Recognition and Interaction Webs: the PLOS Comp Biol July Issue
Here are our highlights from July’s PLOS Computational Biology Neutral Models of Microbiome Evolution There has been an explosion of research…