Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0PLOS Biology
What is biology research for?
- 1Section of Genetic Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Abstract
In the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the assumption that writing a paper requires doing science no longer holds true. Before deciding how to respond to the surge of AI-generated papers, the field needs to state what biology research is actually for.
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BibTeX
@article{blekhman2026what,
title = {{What is biology research for?}},
author = {Ran Blekhman},
journal = {PLOS Biology},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3004075},
url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3004075},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - What is biology research for?
AU - Ran Blekhman
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/15
JO - PLOS Biology
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3004075
UR - https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3004075
AB - In the age of generative artificial intelligence (AI), the assumption that writing a paper requires doing science no longer holds true. Before deciding how to respond to the surge of AI-generated papers, the field needs to state what biology research is actually for.
SN - 1545-7885
SN - 1544-9173
ER -