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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Medicine & Health malERA – A Research Agenda for Malaria Eradication
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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Earth & Environment Participatory Monitoring for Forests, Climate and REDD+
The studies in this PLOS ONE collection investigate community participation in measuring, reporting and verifying (PMRV) initiatives as a contribution to international, national and project level…
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Biology & Life Sciences Epidemiological Investigations of North American Zoo Elephant Welfare
Our society has become increasingly interested in understanding how living in zoos affects animal well-being. This is particularly true for long-lived, socially-complex species such as elephants. This…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Global Burden of Norovirus & Prospects for Vaccine Development
Each year, norovirus causes over 200,000 deaths and a global economic burden of more than $60 billion. A highly contagious virus that most people will contract 5 times in their lifetime, the most…
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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…