Subject Area: Biology & Life Sciences

Scientists tell stories about their work in many ways, in many venues. And though the ups and downs of the research process underlie every scientific publication, they rarely make it into the final…

The iGEM Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology through the development of open community and collaboration. These aims are shared by PLOS, whose mission is to advance…

"Deep Reads" celebrates science in literature, and was started in 2013 by PLOS Genetics Interviews Editor, Jane Gitschier, with the aim of providing recommendations for books in the realms…

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering…

The Neurodegenerative Disease Research section of the PLOS Neuroscience Collection includes a selection of research articles published in PLOS journals since 2014. Neurodegenerative diseases are…

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering…

This collection represents those articles published in PLOS journals on the general topic of Paleontology (the study of fossils and of life forms that existed in past geological periods). The…

This Focus Feature addresses some of the most exciting current opportunities and challenges in the field of Network Biology. The collection of articles includes both primary research papers and…

The ecological impacts of climate change are broad and diverse, altering species' range limits, plant phenology and growth, carbon and nutrient cycling, as well as biodiversity and extinction risk…

Rapidly advancing whole-genomic and transcriptomic technologies enable the amplification of small amounts of DNA and RNA extracted from single cells, providing us with unprecedented insight into the…