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 Genetically Modified Insect
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 Biology
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 Research
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 Lines
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 2015
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 Reads
"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…
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Biology & Life Sciences Cognitive Neuroscience: Connectomics
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering…
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Biology & Life Sciences Neurodegenerative Disease Research
The Neurodegenerative Disease Research section of the PLOS Neuroscience Collection includes a selection of research articles published in PLOS journals since 2014. Neurodegenerative diseases are…
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Biology & Life Sciences Cognitive Neuroscience: Disordered Cognition
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields, including, chemistry, computer science, engineering…
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Biology & Life Sciences Paleontology
This collection represents those articles published in PLOS journals on the general topic of Paleontology (the study of fossils and of life forms that existed in past geological periods). The…