by Arthur Caplan A scientist named He Jiankui at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, shocked…
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Biotechnology He Jiankui’s Moral MessRead more
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Biology The XV Collection: Perverse Outcomes of Novel TherapiesRead more
by Andrew Read Yale professor Steve Stearns once warned that the transition from Young Turk to Old Turkey happens quickly…
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Cell biology Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, modelling chromatin dynamics, ant obstacle coursesRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the May issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Quantitative theory of deep brain stimulation of…
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Biology The XV Collection: What Happens when the Antibiotic 1-2 Punch Backfires?Read more
by Michael Laub The rise of antibiotic resistance is a frightening reality. In response, many have insisted that we must find…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – MarchRead more
March has been a bumper month at PLOS Biology with lots of research hitting the press. A selection of our top…
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Computational biology Predicting infectious disease epidemics, probing gene regulatory networks with memory functions, explaining microbial growth/yield trade-offsRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the February issue of PLOS Computational Biology: Prediction of infectious disease epidemics…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – DecemberRead more
December has been a bumper month at PLOS Biology; here’s a roundup of some of the best bits in the media…
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Biology PLOS Biology Explores Gaps between Environmental Health Science and PolicyRead more
Donald Trump had been president less than a week when he vowed to slash regulations by 75 percent. Within two weeks of…
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Announcement Announcing the 2017 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize WinnersRead more
Earlier this year, PLOS Computational Biology launched the “PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize” program with the aim of recognizing the journal’s best Research…
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Biology Understanding Images: A Canine Model of Juvenile DermatomyositisRead more
Author: Leigh Anne Clark, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America Competing Interests: Leigh Anne Clark is an author of…
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Cell biology Ebola Modeling, Microbial Community Cross-Feeding, and Detecting Concussion: the PLOS Comp Biol December 2016 IssueRead more
Check out our highlights from the last PLOS Computational Biology issue of 2016: Spatiotemporal Analysis of the 2014 West African Ebola…
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Biology Slice of PLOS: A Fungus Among UsRead more
Fungi are essential elements of all ecosystems and provide many important services, most notably decomposition. While the classic role of fungi is…