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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News The first synbio Nobel PrizeRead more
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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…
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Publishing PLOS UpdateRead more
In 2009, we launched PLOS Currents as an experimental platform for rapid communication of non-standard publications. A few communities embraced the experiment…
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Ecology The Rollercoaster of Exploding PollenRead more
When I think about reading peer-reviewed natural history papers — including contemporary articles in a ‘Natural History Miscellany Note’ or ‘The Scientific…
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In the News Aperta Source Code is Now AvailableRead more
We’re happy to announce that the source code for the Aperta submission system can now be found on GitHub. Aperta has been developed…
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Interview Synthetic Biology from an editor’s perspective: Interview with Ross CloneyRead more
If you submit you synthetic biology paper to Nature Communications, Ross Cloney is the person that will handle your case. After…
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PLOS ONE PLOS ONE and Children’s Tumor Foundation partnership announce second cycle of DDIRR AwardsRead more
The Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), the largest non-governmental funder of neurofibromatosis (NF) research, and PLOS ONE, a leading peer-reviewed scientific journal, are…
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post I am known by many names, but it’s all SCRAMBLEdRead more
Guest post by Thomas Clements SCRAMBLE is a new form of directed evolution pioneered in Sc 2.0, an entirely synthetic…