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 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…
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Biology & Life Sciences Malaria: Targets and Drugs for All StagesView Collection
Drug research in malaria often focuses on blood stage parasites because they are responsible for the symptoms of the disease and are easier to manipulate in the laboratory.This collection describes…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Human Microbiome ProjectView Collection
The healthy adult body hosts ten times as many microbial cells as human cells.The metagenome carried collectively by these microbial communities dwarfs the human genome in size, and their influences…
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Biology & Life Sciences Genomics of Emerging Infectious DiseasesView Collection
This collection of essays, perspectives, and reviews from six PLOS journals provides insights into how genomics can revolutionize our understanding of emerging infectious disease. Produced with…
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Biology & Life Sciences Genetically Modified InsectView Collection
The January 2012 issue of PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases presented an Editorial, a Viewpoint, and two accompanying Expert Commentaries that focussed on the application of genetically modified (GM…
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Biology & Life Sciences Editor’s Picks: Experimental BiologyView Collection
The Experimental Biology Conference, hosted jointly by five scientific societies, brings together investigators from diverse biomedical disciplines. This conference provides an exciting opportunity to…
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Biology & Life Sciences Cancer ResearchView Collection
Cancers figure among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, with approximately 14 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer related deaths each year. It is expected that annual cancer…
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Biology & Life Sciences Conservation Stories from the Front LinesView Collection
Scientists tell stories about their work in many ways, in many venues. And though the ups and downs of the research process underlie every scientific publication, they rarely make it into the final…
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Biology & Life Sciences PLOS iGEM 2015View Collection
The iGEM Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of synthetic biology through the development of open community and collaboration. These aims are shared by PLOS, whose mission is to advance…
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Biology & Life Sciences Deep ReadsView Collection
"Deep Reads" celebrates science in literature, and was started in 2013 by PLOS Genetics Interviews Editor, Jane Gitschier, with the aim of providing recommendations for books in the realms…