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  • A PLOS Collection Confronting Plastic Pollution to Protect Environmental and Public Health

    Nearly 50 years after researchers first found specs of plastic floating in the Atlantic Ocean, microplastics are everywhere. In this collection, our expert editors have compiled evidence-based…

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  • A PLOS Collection Human Genetic Admixture

    Throughout human history, large-scale migrations have facilitated the formation of populations with ancestry from multiple previously separated populations. This process leads to subsequent shuffling…

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  • A PLOS Collection Editor’s Picks: Chemical Tools & Probes

    Small molecules that allow us to observe and manipulate biological systems by targeting and binding to specific targets are powerful tools in the field of Chemical Biology. These probes can inhibit a…

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  • A PLOS Collection Paleoecology and Paleobiology of Extinct Species

    This Collection showcases recent publications that aim to reconstruct extinct species’ interactions with both the abiotic and biotic environment, including unraveling past faunal communities from…

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  • A PLOS Collection Diagnostic Tests in Low-Resource Settings

    Advances in technology and engineering over the past few decades have led to an increased interest in developing new, low-cost diagnostic techniques for use in resource-constrained settings…

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  • A PLOS Collection Social Psychiatry

    Social contexts and environments have a critical influence on psychiatric morbidity. Whilst biological mechanisms can explain some aspects of psychiatric disorders, their influence is moderated by a…

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  • A PLOS Collection Antiviral Innate Immunity

    Viral infections are an important cause of death worldwide. In addition to established human pathogens, spillover from animal reservoirs cause emergent and re-emergent viral infections, such as the…

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  • A PLOS Collection Public Health Implications of a Changing Climate

    This Collection uses the lens of climate change to address effects on public health with a particular focus on the spread of infectious diseases. These articles present impactful research on One…

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  • A PLOS Collection Education Research Collection

    This Collection highlights some of PLOS ONE’s publications across the broad field of education research, from early childhood education to higher education faculty training, on a variety of study…

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  • A PLOS Collection Infectious Disease Epidemiology

    The threat of emerging zoonoses to public health underscores the need to assess and share research on transmission patterns and infection dynamics openly, in real time. Modern infectious disease…

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