This was a question posed by Denise Grady in an article in the New York Times earlier this month. Her piece outlined…

A number of papers published in PLoS ONE in 2008 have been featured in some recent round-ups of the year's best—and quirkiest—research. From worm…

Publication bias became a big blogging topic last week as a PLoS Medicine paper was picked up by several influential sites. Lisa…

A Health in Action paper published in PLoS Medicine recently describes the success of an innovative project called inSPOT – an e-card…

Jeremy Farrar, from the Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, Oxford, U.K. and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City…

PLoS (in the form of myself) took a little time off last week to attend the press opening of the California Academy…

Last week, co-authors Jürgen Richt and S. Mark Hall published a groundbreaking article in PLoS Pathogens related to mad cow disease. The…

After the massive media buzz surrounding the last paper published in PLoS ONE by Paul Sereno, in which he and colleagues described…

Paul Sereno’s paper wasn’t – by any means – the only PLoS ONE paper published last week to have been covered by…

This week saw the publication of another dinosaur study in PLoS ONE. In the article, entitled, Dinosaurian Soft Tissues Interpreted as Bacterial…

Here’s another important step forward in the open access movement. Under its new editor Paul Farmer (who is often talked about as…

When we launched PLoS Medicine in October 2004, the editors announced that we would “not to be part of the cycle of…