The first official issue of the Public Library of Science Biology is online. This is perhaps what you’d call an “open source” approach to science publishing. Scientists with no less prominence than Harold Varmus have been trying to wrest the control of scientific publication from a small group of publishing companies that charge very high prices (exorbitant or not is ...

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Regions of genes may be hotspots for gentic change in evolution and in cancer. Once again evidence suggests the basic mechanisms of cancer are intertwined with the basic mechanisms of life.

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