Geneticist and science writer Ricki Lewis describes a personal journey relating to the BRCA1 “breast cancer gene”, to coincide with the publication…

PLOS Genetics is pleased to announce its new partnership with Dryad, an Open Access repository for data underlying peer-reviewed articles. Following PLOS…

Following the successful launch of the PLOS Computational Biology collection ‘Translational Bioinformatics’, we are delighted to announce the continued development of this…

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

PLOS is pleased to be attending the ISMB/ECCB 2013 International Society for Computational Biology meeting held this year in Berlin, Germany, July…

You’re at a cheesy disco – it’s a large room, the lights are down, the music’s loud. But no one’s dancing. Because…

Bumblebees (also quaintly known as dumbledores, long before the wizard was a twinkle in JK Rowling’s eye) have an image problem. Their…

Welcome to PLoS Biologue, the new blog for PLoS Biology PLoS Biologue is where the journal team and our guest contributors would…