It might be hard to believe, but 2015 marks ten years of PLOS Genetics! To celebrate ten years of hard work, research, and…
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Biology Human Disease Epigenomics 2.0Read more
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Advocacy New Charges of Climate Skeptic’s Undisclosed Ties to Energy Industry Highlight Journals’ Role as GatekeeperRead more
In theory, it shouldn’t matter where authors of scientific papers get their research funding, a longtime journal editor once told me. Papers…
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Debate Suffering for Science: Balancing the Costs and Benefits of Animal ResearchRead more
Think for a moment, if you will, of all the chemicals that you conscientiously and unconsciously are exposed to everyday. Banal, daily-life…
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Biology Stressed to Death: Overcoming Drug Resistance in Malaria ParasitesRead more
In recent decades the burden of malaria has greatly decreased. This is the result of both successful public health initiatives and widespread…
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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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Funding A Crisis at NCRIS – Australia’s Science Infrastructure under Threat.Read more
by Ginny Barbour (updated March 16th – see foot of post) There’s a high-stakes game of chicken currently being played out in…
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Community The molecular clock, the circadian clock, and exploring protein surface pockets: the PLOS Comp Biol February IssueRead more
Here are our highlights from February’s PLOS Computational Biology The Molecular Clock of Neutral Evolution Evolution is driven by genetic mutations…
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Biology Chromosome Biology: You’ve Come a Long Way, BabyRead more
It might be hard to believe, but 2015 marks ten years of PLOS Genetics! To celebrate ten years of hard work, research…
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Biology Starch, Oil, Water and Arsenic: New Plant Translational ResearchRead more
by Christina Kary PLOS launched a Collection last year, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s an update on how it’s…
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Biology This Week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about shrinking the gap between patients and researchers, cookie-cutting membrane perforators, the breakdown of…
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Biology This week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about a fundamental step in the making of plant oils and the pitfalls of…
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Biology This week in PLOS BiologyRead more
In this bumper week for PLOS Biology, you can read about bat navigation, transmission of longevity, new neurons for old brains, how…