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 Slice of PLOS: 57 Varieties of TomatoView Collection
Artificial selection by humans has shaped tomatoes for the last few thousand years, but what happened before that? A recent paper by Leonie Moyle and colleagues, published in PLOS Biology, looks back…
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Biology & Life Sciences Editor’s Picks: AutophagyView Collection
Autophagy or “self-eating” is a process by which the cell removes misfolded proteins and damaged organelles in times of stress and starvation. This tightly regulated process is…
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Biology & Life Sciences Open Highlights: Mitochondria—a billion years of cohabitationView Collection
An engulfment of a small bacterium by a larger archaeon more than a billion years ago resulted not in death, but in one of the most successful partnerships on earth. This Open Highlights Collection…
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collection PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary: DatasetsView Collection
By sharing their underlying data and related metadata, authors increase the value and impact of their research. Since its inception, PLOS ONE has encouraged data sharing, and in 2014, in keeping with…
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Medicine & Health PLOS Medicine Cancer ResearchView Collection
Knowledge about the causes of cancer and interventions to prevent and manage the disease is extensive and is continually growing. Whilst many patients now have improved prognosis if their cancer is…
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collection PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary: 10 Highly Cited ArticlesView Collection
PLOS provides a range of Article-Level Metrics to assess the impact of its articles. Among these, citation number remains the gold standard by which scientists can explicitly reference the relevance…
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Biology & Life Sciences Bridging Communities: Co- and Polymicrobial InfectionsView Collection
Humans are colonized by an array of microbial communities and many diseases are caused by polymicrobial exposures that have exacerbated symptoms when combined with a second pathogen. PLOS Pathogens…
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channel TuberculosisRead more
Tuberculosis kills more people today than HIV and malaria combined. In 2015, there were an estimated 10.4 million new TB cases worldwide…
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Biology & Life Sciences ZikaView Collection
Zika is an arbovirus infection transmitted by several different species of Aedes mosquitoes, including Aedes aegypti in the New World. Towards the end of 2015, the Pan American Health Organization…
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Computer & Information Sciences Open Source Toolkit: HardwareView Collection
The Open Source Toolkit has migrated to PLOS Channels. PLEASE VISIT THE OPEN SOURCE TOOLKIT CHANNEL FOR THE LATEST OPEN SOURCE RESEARCH…