The International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the body that regulates animal species names, took a big step earlier this week when…
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Aggregators New animal species now official when published online
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Aggregators Genetic Signatures of Exceptional Longevity Revisited
Today we published a paper titled “Genetic Signatures of Exceptional Longevity in Humans,” by lead researchers Paola Sebastiani and Thomas Perls of…
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Images Worth a Thousand Words
This post was written by Caroline McCormick, who started at PLoS ONE last year as a Publications Assistant and is now a…
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Topic Focus Our genes help us make tough moral decisions
Today we published a paper about how genes help control decision-making in morally ambiguous situations. Before I even got to the results…
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Topic Focus In support of XMRV researchers
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a mysterious condition. Its cause, diagnosis, even its name have long been sources of controversy, and it…