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In PLOS Biology this week, you can read about how plants cope with arsenic in the soil, the lengthening of tubular biological…

STOP PRESS! “Scientists decode words from brain signals, fueling hopes for mind reading!” “Mind-reading device could become reality!” “Scientists make telepathy…

We talk to the authors of a PLOS Biology research article published last May that has just won the Omenn Prize for…

PLOS has just launched a new Collection, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s why we did it, and what we hope…

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“Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man. Steve Austin…

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Where do viruses come from? Like us, they are products of their genomes, and like our genomes, viral genomes are palimpsests of…

Testing a new drug on human subjects is expensive, risky and ethically complex, so the vast majority of potential treatments are…

Despite the sales pitch, sex is frankly a bit of a hassle, isn’t it? The champagne, the flowers, the desultory conversations…