Last week, the Chicago Tribune reported, the US Environmental Protection Agency forced the director of its Midwest Office to quit after she…
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Publishing Why Did the EPA Fire a Respected Toxicologist? A Longtime Defender of Scientific Integrity Speaks OutRead more
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Publishing New Leadership at PLoS BiologyRead more
To mark the appointment of the first Academic Editor-in-Chief for PLoS Biology, there are two editorials published in the journal today: the…
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Publishing Do Animals Think Like Autistic Savants?Read more
When Temple Grandin argued that animals and autistic savants share cognitive similarities in her best-selling book Animals in Translation (2005), the idea…
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Publishing Guest Blog: Kafkaesque Bureaucracies Impede Import of Scientific Goods in BrazilRead more
PLoS Biology invited Mauro Rebelo, of Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho, and Stevens Rehen, of Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade Federal…
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Publishing Celebrate Darwin’s Birthday!Read more
Sally Hubbard Today marks nearly 200 years since the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809, and Darwin Day events around the…
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Publishing Leslie E. Orgel (1927–2007)Read more
Guest blog: PLoS Biology invited Gerald Joyce, professor in the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at The Scripps Research Institute, to…
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Publishing When Conflicts of Interest Threaten Scientific IntegrityRead more
The growing commercialization of scientific research has increasingly forced biomedical publishers to grapple with real and perceived conflicts of interest. Every scientist…
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