A guest post from Talia Young, Ph.D., David H. Smith Conservation Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University & Director of Fishadelphia I recently saw another ecology talk refer…
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Ecology Sex ≠GenderRead more
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In the News PLOS Board AppointmentsRead more
After a careful search and much consideration, we are excited to share with our community five new appointments we’ve made to…
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From the community Open access under attack – how international regulation collides with the open use of genetic sequence dataRead more
Written by Fabian Rohden Current discussions on international level, namely the Nagoya Protocol, circle around regulating the access to genetic sequence…
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Innovation PLOS Authors Say “Yes” to PreprintsRead more
We’ve surpassed 1,300 preprint posts to bioRxiv! This is an incredible milestone for us and for all of our authors who chose…
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post iGEM 2018: The grand prize winners share their experienceRead more
iGEM competitions are always exciting, and this year’s Jamboree was no exception. iGEM Marburg won the grand prize on the overgrad…
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Early Career Family and the FieldRead more
Over the weekend I submitted a grant proposal, wrote a quippy tweet, and read a paper. The paper was Dr…
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News The first synbio Nobel PrizeRead more
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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Interview Looking for the origins of life using synthetic biology: an interview with Betul KacarRead more
In the interdisciplinary field of engineering life, synthetic biologists team up with experts from different fields. However, pairing synthetic biology with…
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Basic Neuroscience “Neuroscience at Scale: Synaptomics tries to make sense of the brain at a stupefying scale” by Samuel RoseRead more
Even though it’s smaller than a basketball, the scale of the human brain can feel astronomical. “There are as many neurons in…
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Synthetic Biology It’s gold! Nanoparticles delivery of CRISPR in mouse brain.Read more
Written by Navaneeth Mohan A form of Autism—fragile X syndrome (FXS)—is caused by a repeating genetic sequence in the human brain…
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Open Science Opening up to new perspectives: an interview with Aileen FyfeRead more
Peer Review Week 2018 is all about diversity. To look at the changing scholarly landscape, we interviewed science publishing historian, Aileen Fyfe…
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Innovation Transparency, credit, and peer reviewRead more
Yesterday I signed an open letter on behalf of all PLOS journals, alongside 20 other editors representing over 100 publications, to…