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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Biology & Life Sciences Epidemics on the move: climate change and infectious diseaseView Collection
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 StarwormsView Collection
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 & NutritionView Collection
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 HealthView Collection
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…
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Research Analysis & Policy The Missing Pieces: A Collection of Negative, Null and Inconclusive ResultsView Collection
The publication of negative, null and inconclusive results is important to provide scientists with balanced information and avoid the duplication of efforts testing similar hypotheses, which waste…
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Medicine & Health IWANN Special Collection 2019: Deep Learning Models in Healthcare and BiomedicineView Collection
When it comes to recent computational support for medical diagnosis from images or sequences, it is more and more intensively resorted to deep learning architectures. The performance and insights that…
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Medicine & Health Regulatory Harmonization CollectionView Collection
While regulation of medicines is a key pillar of any health system assuring access to quality medicines, an unoptimized regulatory system is a barrier to access. Over the last 8 years the East African…
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Medicine & Health The BIRTH Special CollectionView Collection
In 2014, the EU funded a COST Action that brought together over 120 scientists, practitioners, activists and policy makers from 34 countries, to advance research and practice in an area of great…
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Medicine & Health Advances in Clinical Trial Design for Development of New Treatments for TuberculosisView Collection
With recent opportunities to test combinations of new and repurposed drugs for the treatment of TB, new questions arise for optimal clinical trial design. To address these, in March 2018 WHO organized…
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Medicine & Health Economic Efficiency of HIV ServicesView Collection
In order to maximize the value for money for HIV services and increase efficiency without sacrificing quality, robust and up-to-date data on costs, efficiency and its determinants are needed…