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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Biology & Life Sciences Editor’s Picks: Stem Cell ResearchView Collection
Stem cell research covers a broad range of topics, from disease modelling to cellular plasticity and reprogramming. This diversity is highlighted in the program for the Annual Meeting for the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Structural Biology & Human Health: Medically Relevant Proteins from the SGCView Collection
This collection of articles represents some of the research highlights from the Structural Genomics Consortium (SGC). The SGC is an international public-private partnership that determines three…
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Medicine & Health The Geopolitics of Neglected Tropical DiseasesView Collection
To commemorate the 5th Anniversary of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (PLOS NTDs), we are releasing a collection focusing on geographic perspectives on the global burden of the neglected tropical…
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Biology & Life Sciences PLOS Pathogens & PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Twinning CollectionView Collection
PLOS Pathogens and PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases present a collection of primary research articles on topics spanning these sister journals, including: proteomics, kinetoplastids, insect vectors…
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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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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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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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Biology & Life Sciences Stress-Induced Depression and Comorbidities: From Bench to BedsideView Collection
This collection of articles represents the output of a group of international research institutions (informally referred to as EUMOOD) who collaborated around the causal link between stress exposure…
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Medicine & Health The Changing Nature of Global Health InstitutionsView Collection
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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Biology & Life Sciences Epigenetics 2010View Collection
Epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in phenotype or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence. This collection brings together twenty research…