I wrote about engineered probiotics at the beginning of 2017, and the field continued throughout 2017 with more papers and startup news…
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Synthetic Biology Engineered bacteria to detect gut inflammationRead more
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post Snakes. Why did it have to be giant snakes?Read more
Snakes are beautiful and bizarre animals. Limbless vertebrates, they have been around for more than 150 million years, and occupy almost every…
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Biodiversity The Birds That Start Fires: Using Indigenous Ecological Knowledge to Understand Animal BehaviorRead more
I don’t remember too much from the eighties–other than Nintendo, Sonic, and how cool the Ghostbusters were. But I do clearly remember…
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Early Career 525,600 minutes, 365 papers, and 100 articles every ecologist should readRead more
Last month, Nature Ecology & Evolution published Courchamp and Bradshaw’s ‘100 articles every ecologist should read.’ Here, Courchamp and Bradshaw attempt to…
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Basic Neuroscience TMEM168, a new player in mood disorders?Read more
Transcriptional studies have revealed that alterations of gene expression are key mechanisms by which stimuli induce adaptive modifications in the brain. Indeed…
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Conservation Hyenas Among HumansRead more
Increasingly, animals have to share their space with human activities and infrastructure, even in protected nature reserves. Although human activity can often…
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Open Science An Open Letter to the Community from PLOS CEO, Alison MuddittRead more
As the new PLOS CEO, I’ve spent my first months assessing the organization and planning for a thriving future. We are in…
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Biodiversity Saving Species from OurselvesRead more
A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post from Dr. Robert Alexander Pyron has created quite the stir in the conservation and…
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Innovation Unrestricted Text and Data Mining with allofPLOSRead more
Content mining, machine learning, text and data mining (TDM) and data analytics all refer to the process of obtaining information through machine-read…
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Innovation PLOS Channels Provide Opportunity for Discovery, Exploration and Contextual InsightsRead more
Last month, the new PLOS Cholera Channel joined existing Veterans Disability & Rehabilitation Research, Tuberculosis and Open Source Toolkit Channels in providing…
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Conservation The Language of Odors: Different Odor Dialects in Wild Otter PopulationsRead more
Researchers from Cardiff University in Wales have shown for the first time that genetically distinct populations of wild mammals have different “odor…
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Biodiversity An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Invasive Alien SpeciesRead more
A guest post from Susanna Lidström from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Simon West of the Stockholm Reslience Centre Recently, Russell…