This perspective discusses the different ways in which to engage the public in discussions about bioscientific innovation and highlights the benefits that such public engagement offers to both science and society.
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the Antarctic have rich and unusual animal communities. This primer highlights research by Alex Rogers et al. and the importance of the Antarctic benthos for biological understanding.
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This synopsis discusses research by Thilo Womelsdorf and colleagues, which reveals how functional clusters of neurons in the monkey prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex are involved in guiding attention to the most valuable objects in a scene.
Although PLoS ONE is just celebrating its fifth birthday this month, the journal has already affected the open-access ecosystem and the future of publishing, as this editorial explains.
Competition for nutrients contained in diverse types of plant cell wall-associated polysaccharides may explain the evolution of substrate-specific catabolic gene modules in common bacterial members of the human gut microbiota. Read more in this synopsis discussing research by Eric Martens et al.
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