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 Ghostwriting CollectionView Collection
Ghostwriting occurs when someone has made substantial contributions to writing a manuscript but this role is unacknowledged. In medicine, ghostwriting is problematical because it often involves…
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Medicine & Health Are Drug Companies Living Up to Their Human Rights Responsibilities? Three ViewpointsView Collection
In September 2010, the PLOS Medicine Debate asked whether drug companies are living up to their human rights responsibilities. Sofia Gruskin and Zyde Raadfrom the Harvard School of Public Health say…
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Research Analysis & Policy Animals, Research, and Alternatives: Measuring Progress 50 Years LaterView Collection
In 2010, a multi-disciplinary, international conference in Washington, DC addressed opportunities and challenges to implementing alternatives to animal research. This symposium aimed to advance the…
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Medicine & Health Disease MongeringView Collection
To mark the first academic meeting on disease mongering (the "selling of sickness" in order to promote drug sales), which was held in Newcastle, Australia in April 2006, and to help provoke…
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Computer & Information Sciences Cities as Complex SystemsView Collection
Cities are centres of human interactions and the innovations that arise from them. Urbanization has led to many positive developments for society, but also contributes to many of our most pressing…
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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…