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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Medicine & Health Global Health EstimatesView Collection
Estimates of global health indicators - which give insight into death and disease rates, document advances in development, and help policymakers monitor progress - are absolutely essential for…
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Medicine & Health Grand Challenges CollectionView Collection
In this special collection, four policy papers cover a range of ethical, social, and cultural issues related to the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Mice Drawer System Experiment & the Space Endurance Record-Breaking MiceView Collection
The ability to live for long periods in the absence of normal gravity requires comprehensive understanding of structural and functional changes that occur in the bodies of humans and other mammals…
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Medicine & Health Global Health Diplomacy CollectionView Collection
In April 2010 PLOS Medicine launched a six-part series on global health diplomacy. In the introductory article, Harley Feldbaum and Joshua Michaud consider the important interplay between foreign…
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Medicine & Health Monitoring Universal Health CoverageView Collection
This collection presents a global framework for monitoring progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) conducted by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank Group. UHC is defined as…
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Medicine & Health Sub-Saharan Africa’s Mothers, Newborns and ChildrenView Collection
In June and July 2010, PLOS Medicine published a series of articles on maternal, newborn, and child health in sub-Saharan Africa. The series provides a snapshot of the health and causes of death among…
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Medicine & Health Child Mortality Estimation MethodsView Collection
Millennium Development Goal 4 calls for a reduction of two-thirds in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. Reliable estimates of child mortality are critical to the monitoring of progress…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Genome Network Project/FANTOM3 CollectionView Collection
The Genome Network Project/FANTOM3 collection features articles describing findings that redefine the landscape of the mammalian transcriptome by introducing an extensive collection of novel cDNAs and…
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Biology & Life Sciences 2009 Maize Genome CollectionView Collection
The authors of the research presented in this special collection used the first description of the B73 maize genome to probe some of the most intriguing questions in genetics and plant biology. Read…
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Medicine & Health PLOS & DNDi: A Decade of OA & R&DView Collection
In 2013, PLOS and DNDi (Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative) celebrate their 10th Anniversaries: a decade of Open Access publishing and a decade of research and development for drugs for neglected…