In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Megan Griffiths discusses the challenges of studying herpesvirus transmission by vampire bats in South and Central…
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Behind the paper Behind the paper: hunting for herpesvirus — the search for a transmissible vaccine vectorRead 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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Biology Exploiting protein domain co-occurrence, switching the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, optimising glioblastoma treatment, and modelling the metabolism of the malaria parasiteRead more
Check out our Editors-in-Chief’s selection of papers from the January issue of PLOS Computational Biology. Improving pairwise comparison of protein…
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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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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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Community 4th International Conference on Model Hosts (September 22 – 27, 2017): Danielle A. GarsinRead more
As part of its mission to encourage engagement within the genetics community, PLOS Genetics is sponsoring a number of conferences and meetings this…
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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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Advocacy Making the Case for Basic ResearchRead more
Scientists stuck on the grant-seeking treadmill may find comfort in the results of a recent report from the National Science Foundation. Eighty-five…
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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…
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Biology Understanding Images: Coat of Invisibility – How Trypanosoma brucei Evades RecognitionRead more
Author: Galadriel Hovel-Miner, George Washington University, Washington DC, United States. Competing Interests: Galadriel Hovel-Miner is an author of the article discussed…
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Announcement PLOS Biology is at ASM Microbe 2016!Read more
This year’s American Society of Microbiology conference, ASM Microbe 2016, kicks off on June 16th, 2016 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. PLOS Biology…
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Biology Slice of PLOS: 57 Varieties of TomatoRead more
This beautiful berry, domesticated in the Americas more than 2500 years ago, and introduced to the Old World in the 16th…