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 GLBIO/CCBC 2016 – Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The first joint Great Lakes Bioinformatics (GLBio) and the Canadian Computational Biology Conference 2016 (GLBIO/CCBC) took place in Toronto from May 16th to 19th. The conference was organized by the…
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Medicine & Health Blue Marble Health: the mismatch between national wealth and population health
'Blue marble health' is a recent concept that recognizes a paradoxical disease burden among poor people living in G20 and other wealthier countries. Socioeconomic disparities caused by income…
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Medicine & Health Maternal Health Task Force Year 3: Integrating Health Care to Meet the Needs of the Mother-Infant Pair
The theme of the Year 3 Collection was chosen with the aim of strengthening the evidence for approaches to providing integrated care, from preconception; through pregnancy, childbirth and the…
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Medicine & Health Proceedings of Medicine X
The Stanford Medicine X program is a leading patient-centered conference on emerging technology and medicine. With aims to catalyze new ideas about the future of medicine and health care, the…
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Biology & Life Sciences Prokaryotic Genome Collection
The Prokaryotic Genome Collection aims to present and highlight a number of important articles that describe whole genome sequence and/or comparative genomics of important prokaryotic organisms. We…
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Medicine & Health Maternal Health Task Force – Year 2: Maternal Health is Women’s Health
The theme, “Maternal health is women's health”, was created to highlight the importance of considering maternal health in the context of women's health throughout their lifespans. While…
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Medicine & Health Maternal Health Task Force Year 1: Quality of Maternal Health Care
While the coverage and reach of maternal health services have increased dramatically in many countries around the world, the quality of those services (both institutional and at the community level…
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Medicine & Health Measuring Coverage in Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
This collection presents innovative assessments of the validity of measuring population coverage for interventions in this field. Coverage indicators are widely used to assess whether interventions…
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Medicine & Health Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: The Cost, Impact, and Challenges of Accelerated Scale-Up
This collection of articles published in PLOS, in conjunction with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Mice Drawer System Experiment & the Space Endurance Record-Breaking Mice
The ability to live for long periods in the absence of normal gravity requires comprehensive understanding of structural and functional changes that occur in the bodies of humans and other mammals…