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 The Changing Nature of Global Health Institutions
In January 2010 PLOS Medicine launched a four-part series examining the ways in which global health institutions and arrangements are changing and evolving. The series aims to stimulate debate…
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Medicine & Health Ghostwriting 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 Viewpoints
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 Later
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 Mongering
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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Research Analysis & Policy Improving the Lives of Adults and Families: Identifying Individual and Systems-level Factors Relating Education, Health, Civic Engagement, and Economic Well-being
This Collection builds upon the OECD’s Survey of Adult Skills to extend the evidence-base on the relationship of education and skills to public health for adults and their families…
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Medicine & Health TDR Reflects on 40 Years
In 1974, the 27th session of the World Health Assembly called for the "intensification of activities in tropical disease research" and the "strengthening of research and training…
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Computer & Information Sciences Translational Bioinformatics
'Translational Bioinformatics' is a collection of articles which reads as a "book" to be used as a reference or tutorial for a graduate level introductory course on the science of…
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Computer & Information Sciences Core Facilities
Biomedical research is benefiting from the wealth of new data generated in the laboratory through new instrumentation, greater computational resources, and massive repositories of public domain data…
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Computer & Information Sciences About My Lab
This collection was launched with the mission to share knowledge about lab organization and scientific management. Each Perspective article represents an interview with a Principal Investigator, who…