Last November, Binghamton Unversity-SUNY’s WHRW station shared this message as part of their program ‘Broadcasting World Literature’: “Today, since it’s Thanksgiving week…
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Biodiversity Thanksgiving Reading ListRead more
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Business Strain engineering for a better synbio future: an interview with Andreas Meyer from FGenRead more
FGen is a synthetic biology startup from Switzerland. The company works as a contract research organization, offering strain development and protein…
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Innovation Why engage with preprints?Read more
This post was co-written by Dan Morgan, Director of Community Relations; Rebecca Kirk, Associate Editorial Director, Madison Crystal, Brand Communications Manager; and…
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Behind the scenes Science Behind the Scenes: Multiplexed CRISPR and sgRNA Arrays with the Howard Salis LabRead more
Over the last few years, thousands of studies have employed CRISPR/Cas systems to edit, or transcriptionally regulate, individual genetic targets. But…
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Publishing Bats, mummies, and cows in costume: PLOS research making headlines in October!Read more
Though Halloween is behind us, we’re always in the spirit for good science here at PLOS—and our most-talked-about October articles prove it…
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Future of Open Series Preregistration can bring science back to its rootsRead more
This blog is part of our series on the Future of Open Science. Read previous posts here. Open Access has provided…
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Events Reflections on Global Community Biology of the Future: It is Open, Diverse, and ThrivingRead more
In the last few years, the bio-community around the world has its own conference. Justice went to the Global Community Bio…
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Conferences Thoughts and reflections on the 3rd International Conference on Plant Synthetic BiologyRead more
In early October, the 3rd International Conference on Plant Synthetic Biology, Bioengineering, and Biotechnology took place in Cambridge, UK. Ross Cloney…
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Innovation Community Comments and Peer Review: A preprint commenting pilot at PLOSRead more
Researchers have told us that posting manuscripts as preprints before—or at the same time as—submitting them to a journal is a…
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Behind the scenes Science Behind-the-Scenes: CRISPR for Metabolic Engineering with Dr. Raphael FerreiraRead more
Yeast, the workhorse of synthetic biology, can convert sugars into chemicals, biofuels, and medicines. Metabolic engineers are constantly developing new tools…
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Open Access Paleo in PLOS: October 2019Read more
Featured image: reconstruction of a Late Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite in Alaska. From Fiorillo et al. (2019), see below Happy Halloween! PLOS has…
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Open Access “Flipping” to (more) open when you’re already openRead more
By Sara Rouhi, Director of Strategic Partnerships, PLOS As Open Access Week draws to a close, I find myself reflecting on my brief time…