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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Research Analysis & Policy Publishing Dual Use Research of Concern: A Case StudyView Collection
The implications of publishing dual use research of concern (DURC) continues to be a topic widely and deeply discussed in the scientific community. In a series of Opinion articles, PLOS Pathogens…
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Biology & Life Sciences GIGA: Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance researchView Collection
GIGA is an international non-profit community of scientists dedicated to promoting genomics research of diverse non-model invertebrate species. Invertebrates comprise over 95% of all animal species…
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Biology & Life Sciences PLOS iGEM 2016View Collection
The iGEM Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology through the development of open community and collaboration. These aims are shared by PLOS, whose mission is to advance…
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Biology & Life Sciences Editor’s Picks: Human GeneticsView Collection
Human Genetics encompasses vast areas of study, including genetic epidemiology, genomics, gene therapy, epigenetics, and evolution. The very latest research in these areas and more will be on display…
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Medicine & Health Burden of Infectious Diseases in EuropeView Collection
The Burden of Communicable Diseases in Europe (BCoDE) aimed to estimate the burden of communicable diseases applying a pathogen and incidence based approach to estimating DALYs (Disability Adjusted…
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Biology & Life Sciences Cysteine ProteasesView Collection
Protozoan and metazoan parasites cause many neglected diseases in resource-poor areas. This collection examines the possibility of targeting cysteine proteases within these parasites to provide a…
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Medicine & Health Cardiovascular ScienceView Collection
The complexity of the cardiovascular system has sparked increasing interest in characterizing the interplay between different components of the heart and blood vessels. In this collection of articles…
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Biology & Life Sciences Advances in HIV Mucosal Immunology: Challenges and OpportunitiesView Collection
Without reliable methods to evaluate how the mucosal immune system responds to an experimental HIV vaccine, important information about how well that vaccine worked is missed. The HIV Mucosal…
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Medicine & Health The Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted InfectionsView Collection
Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than one million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) occur each day, incurring a very substantial burden of morbidity…
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collection Pearls: Infections and CancerView Collection
PLOS Pathogens presents a collection of Pearls articles that directly addresses how infections and host responses to them interact in both known and novel ways to cause cancer. This collection…