Subject Area: Biology & Life Sciences

Humans have a responsibility to ensure that animals under their care are treated with respect and dignity. Research on animal welfare is crucial to improve the quality of life experienced by animals…

Cells use elaborate mechanisms to sense a variety of mechanical and biochemical cues in their environment, to integrate this information, and to generate coherent adaptive responses. A more complete…

The approach to health care for trans and gender diverse individuals is evolving in response to expanding knowledge of the needs in these communities, as well as a growing understanding of the…

This Collection brings together research articles that explore the design, implementation, management, and outcomes of restoration and rewilding projects in terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and urban…

This Collection showcases recent publications that aim to reconstruct extinct species’ interactions with both the abiotic and biotic environment, including unraveling past faunal communities from…

Advances in technology and engineering over the past few decades have led to an increased interest in developing new, low-cost diagnostic techniques for use in resource-constrained settings…

Social contexts and environments have a critical influence on psychiatric morbidity. Whilst biological mechanisms can explain some aspects of psychiatric disorders, their influence is moderated by a…

Public health and the welfare of the ecosystems that sustain us depend on understanding how global climate change will affect the dynamics and distribution of pathogens and their plant and animal…

This Collection of articles highlights all content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019-20. PLOS is committed to disseminating research as quickly as…