Subject Area: Biology & Life Sciences

Molecular Biology and Biochemistry form the backbone of biomedical research in the post-genomic era. This collection, as selected by PLOS ONE Associate Editor Adya Misra, highlights publications…

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…

Ten years ago, PLOS published the inaugural issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the first open access journal devoted to highlighting research and commentary on the forgotten diseases that…

Small molecules that allow us to observe and manipulate biological systems by targeting and binding to specific targets are powerful tools in the field of Chemical Biology. These probes can inhibit a…

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…

Nearly 50 years ago, psychiatrists lost access to one of the most promising tools they’d found to study consciousness and treat a range of refractory psychological conditions: psychedelic…

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…

Autophagy or “self-eating” is a process by which the cell removes misfolded proteins and damaged organelles in times of stress and starvation. This tightly regulated process is…

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…