At PLOS we are committed to addressing the needs of all research communities to improve diversity, equity and inclusion. One of the…
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Implementing name changes for published transgender authors
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News Preprints and the Media: A change to how PLOS handles press for papers previously posted as preprints
This post was written by Beth Baker, PLOS’ Senior Media Relations Manager. #PowerToThePreprint PLOS actively encourages the posting of preprints – please…
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News From Open Access to Open Science, PLOS Biology is Leading Change
From its launch in 2003, PLOS Biology quickly established itself as PLOS’ flagship journal in the life sciences–a model of Open…
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News How transposons improve CRISPR efficiency
Guest post by Thomas Clements Gene editing technology is continuously evolving. CRISPR-Cas9 mutagenesis hit the world by storm in 2013 and…
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News Synthetic E. coli pushes the limits of gene synthesis
The synthetic organisms hall of fame has a new member: Syn61, an E. coli with all its genome replaced by a…
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News Are biofoundries the solution to synbio democratization?
A global network of biofoundries was announced last week. Could such an international effort help making synthetic biology more accessible and…
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News Microbial production of cannabinoids
Guest post by Kalliopi Baritaki Cannabinoids are psychotropic substances found in cannabis plants. Their consumption activates the endocannabinoid system, considered to…
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News Type II enzymes and no part shipment in iGEM 2019
In April, iGEM announced two major changes in this year’s competition: teams will no longer need to physically submit their parts…
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News The CRISPR gene-edited babies: a technological breakthrough or a brave new future?
Written by Adam Amara The announcement of the first CRISPR gene-edited babies has sparked a major polemic in the scientific community…
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News The first synbio Nobel Prize
I had the chance to attend a presentation from Frances Arnold last June, at the Metabolic Engineering 12 conference in Munich…
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Neuroscience On Intelligence (by Naureen Ghani)
“The brain is wider than the sky— For put them side by side— The one the other will contain” —Emily Dickinson…
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Neuroscience Seeing through the brain (by Chinmaya Sadangi)
The brain is a complex and mysterious organ, which performs many functions and the proper functioning of this precious machine is important…