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Given the importance of antibiotics to modern medicine, and the growing apprehension surrounding the threat of resistance, this Open Highlights Collection looks at the cellular mechanisms of…

In an effort to understand the mechanisms that drive hunger, trigger satiety, and modulate appetite, scientists often turn to invertebrate model organisms. This Open Highlight explores recent research…

Fungi are incredibly varied and diverse, and perform many crucial ecosystem services. This collection highlights papers from across the PLOS journals that explain the science behind the fungus among…

Artificial selection by humans has shaped tomatoes for the last few thousand years, but what happened before that? A recent paper by Leonie Moyle and colleagues, published in PLOS Biology, looks back…

An engulfment of a small bacterium by a larger archaeon more than a billion years ago resulted not in death, but in one of the most successful partnerships on earth. This Open Highlights Collection…

The composition and function of microbiomes are critical for most animals and plants, leading some to suggest that hosts and their microbiomes should be considered as single ecological unit—the…

Bridging the gap between basic science and clinical practice, regenerative medicine focuses on the repair, regrowth or replacement of cells, tissues and organs. In this Editor’s Picks, PLOS ONE…

Synthetic Biology is an emerging, trans-disciplinary field at the intersection between many engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrical…

Synthetic Biology is an emerging, trans-disciplinary field at the intersection between many engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrical…

Synthetic Biology is an emerging, trans-disciplinary field at the intersection between many engineering and scientific disciplines such as biology, chemical engineering, chemistry, electrical…