In the spirit of Open Con and highlighting the state of Open Data, PLOS is proud to release our Open Data Collection. In collaboration with our external advisor, Melissa Haendel, we have selected…
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Research Analysis & Policy Open DataView Collection
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Medicine & Health Translating the Cancer Genome – Implications for Diagnosis and TreatmentView Collection
Dramatic reductions in the cost of sequencing, as well advances in sequencing technologies, have enabled key insights into the genomic alterations and somatic mutations that lead to cancer and…
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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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Medicine & Health Real-Time Monitoring of Under-Five MortalityView Collection
In most low-income countries, Ministries of Health and their partners must rely on periodic household surveys as their primary population-level source of vital statistics. Recent initiatives around…
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Medicine & Health malERA – An updated research agenda for malaria elimination and eradicationView Collection
‘malERA Refresh’ is a forward-looking research and development agenda that accelerates progress towards malaria elimination and global eradication. The malERA Refresh special collection…
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Medicine & Health malERA – A Research Agenda for Malaria EradicationView Collection
The Malaria Eradication Research Agenda (malERA) initiative complements existing research agendas, which are primarily aimed at reducing the global burden of morbidity and mortality due to malaria by…
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Medicine & Health Migration & HealthView Collection
In May and June 2011, PLOS Medicine published a commissioned six-part series on migration and health. If internal and international migrants comprised a nation, it would be the third most populous…
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Biology & Life Sciences Neurodegenerative Disease ResearchView Collection
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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Medicine & Health Social Medicine in the 21st CenturyView Collection
PLOS Medicine's October 2006 issue contained a special collection of eleven magazine articles and five research papers devoted entirely to social medicine. The collection featured many of the leaders…
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Medicine & Health Cancer ImmunotherapyView Collection
Cancer immunotherapies harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer. In general, immunotherapies either train the immune system to identify and attack cancer cells (e.g. adoptive cell…