The Signaling Pathways Project is a multi-omics knowledgebase based upon public, manually curated transcriptomic and cistromic (ChIP-Seq) datasets involving genetic and small molecule manipulations of…
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Earth & Environment Prediction and Mitigation of Natural Hazards
The PLOS ONE editors, together with guest editors Auroop Ganguly, Renata Libonati, Janna Metzler, and Markus Ries, present a collection of papers on the topic of prediction and mitigation of natural…
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Earth & Environment Safe and Sustainable Water in Cities
Over the next four decades, virtually all global population growth will occur in cities. Urbanization results from natural population increases among city dwellers, rural-to-urban migration, and…
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Medicine & Health COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Mental Health
In this PLOS Medicine Special Issue, we present a fascinating array of research papers which provide insights into various facets of mental health during the pandemic. Key themes include increases in…
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Medicine & Health Global Child Health: From Birth to Adolescence and Beyond
In 2000, the UN adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which were intended to address key determinants of human health and welfare, including poverty, hunger, and disease. One of the MDGs…
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Physics Chemistry & Materials Nanomaterials
This collection showcases a range of published articles from the breadth of the PLOS journals on nanomaterials, featuring the fabrication and application of nanosized materials and structures. As the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Epidemics on the move: climate change and infectious disease
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…
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Medicine & Health Starworms
The Starworms (STop Anthelminthic Resistant WORMS) project aims to strengthen the monitoring and surveillance of drug efficacy and anthelmintic resistance in soil-transmitted helminth control…
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collection Maternal and Child Health & Nutrition
In many parts of the world maternal and child health outcomes are increasingly impacted by indirect causes, many of which are related to nutrition. Women with diabetes, anemia or who are overweight…
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Medicine & Health Trafficking, Exploitation and Health
The health consequences of human trafficking and exploitation are sufficiently prevalent and damaging that they comprise a public health problem of global magnitude. This PLOS Collection offers…