By Jonathan Kimmelman Sometimes the life sciences work fantastically, as when insights into fundamental processes are transformed into life-saving treatments…
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Biology The XV Collection: Ethical Oversights in Ethical Oversight of Animal Research
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Biotechnology He Jiankui’s Moral Mess
by Arthur Caplan A scientist named He Jiankui at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, China, shocked…
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Biology Confronting Conservation’s Wicked Challenges through Story
This week PLOS Biology experiments with new ways of communicating conservation science in a special collection — Conservation Stories from the Front Lines…
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Biology PLOS Biology in the media – December
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 Policy
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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Advocacy Be Bold, Go for Gold!
From the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) meeting in 2002 to the present day, Open Access has come a long way, and…
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Bioinformatics Bad Identifiers are the Potholes of the Information Superhighway: Take-Home Lessons for Researchers
By Julie McMurry, Lilly Winfree, Melissa Haendel This is a guest post by three of the authors of a recent…
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Advocacy An Unexpected Perk of our Data Policy
What happens if you like a study, but find the way that the authors have chosen to present their data unintuitive…
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Announcement Protocols: The Devil is in the Details
Hopefully you know already about the PLOS partnership with protocols.io; if you don’t, PLOS announced this almost exactly a month ago. What…
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Advocacy Setting Your Cites on Open
The Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) was launched on April 6th, 2017. Over the course of about 6 months, the initiative…
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Advocacy Hooray for Open Data Day!
What if, just for one day, we all took some time to focus and think about Open Data? March 4th, 2017 is…
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Community Accidents Will Happen… Introducing LabCIRS
Ever wondered how a laboratory (or a scientific research department) should best manage its day-to-day operations? In a recently published PLOS…