Global food demand places significant pressure on the environment and human societies, including land degradation, deforestation, water scarcity and food inequality. Sustainable agriculture is crucial…
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collection Sustainable CroppingView Collection
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Research Analysis & Policy PLOS Biology and PLOS ONE
Meta-research CollectionView CollectionThis Collection highlights some of PLOS Biology’s Meta-Research articles since 2016 as well as some of PLOS ONE’s articles over the past few years, all about “research on research,” or the…
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collection Confronting Plastic Pollution to Protect Environmental and Public HealthView Collection
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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Biology & Life Sciences Diagnostic Tests in Low-Resource SettingsView Collection
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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Medicine & Health Antiviral Innate ImmunityView Collection
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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collection Public Health Implications of a Changing ClimateView Collection
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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Biology & Life Sciences Epidemics on the move: climate change and infectious diseaseView Collection
Public health and the welfare of the ecosystems that sustain us depend on understanding how global climate change will affect the dynamics and distribution of pathogens and their plant and animal…
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Biology & Life Sciences COVID-19 pandemic (2019-21)View Collection
This Collection of articles highlights all content published across the PLOS journals relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019-20. PLOS is committed to disseminating research as quickly as…
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Biology & Life Sciences Neuroscience of Reward and Decision MakingView Collection
Humans and other animals must make decisions in order to survive. To make a decision, it is necessary to consider the costs and benefits of a given choice and learn from the resulting outcomes to make…
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Biology & Life Sciences Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease DynamicsView Collection
Mathematical modeling of biological processes has contributed to improving our understanding of real-world phenomena and predicting dynamics about how life operates. Mathematical approaches have…