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 Sleeping SicknessView Collection
In the February 2011 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs), Simarro and colleagues report in "The Human African Trypanosomiasis Control and Surveillance Programme of the World…
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Medicine & Health World Health Report 2012: No Health Without ResearchView Collection
In 2011, PLOS Medicine in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) on the theme of “No Health Without Research", intended to coincide with the release of the 2012 World…
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Medicine & Health RabiesView Collection
In several recent PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases papers on rabies — marking the third anniversary of World Rabies Day — scientists describe the situation of canine rabies control in…
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Medicine & Health Poverty CollectionView Collection
The Council of Science Editors organized a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development in October 2007. More than 200 science and health journals, including PLOS Medicine, PLOS Biology, and…
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Biology & Life Sciences Top Ten Research Article CollectionView Collection
To commemorate the Fifth Anniversary of the launch of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, we are releasing a collection of the most-viewed research articles from each of the five years that the journal…
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Medicine & Health StrongyloidesView Collection
When global policymakers address the health and economic impact of the soil-transmitted helminth infections, they generally refer to the "unholy trinity" of ascariasis, hookworm infection…
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Medicine & Health Historical Profiles and PerspectivesView Collection
To commemorate the Fifth Anniversary of the launch of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, we have begun collecting a number of "Historical Profiles and Perspectives" articles which will be…
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Medicine & Health TDR Reflects on 40 YearsView Collection
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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Medicine & Health 40 Years of the APOC PartnershipView Collection
In 1974 the Onchocerciasis Control Program (OCP) began its mission to control river blindness (onchocerciasis) in Africa, transitioning into the African Program for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) in…
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Medicine & Health MycetomaView Collection
Mycetoma is a serious and debilitating condition that meets all of the criteria we ordinarily attribute to a neglected tropical disease (NTD). Classically, it is a destructive fungal or bacterial…