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 The Human Microbiome ProjectView Collection
The healthy adult body hosts ten times as many microbial cells as human cells.The metagenome carried collectively by these microbial communities dwarfs the human genome in size, and their influences…
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Biology & Life Sciences Genomics of Emerging Infectious DiseasesView Collection
This collection of essays, perspectives, and reviews from six PLOS journals provides insights into how genomics can revolutionize our understanding of emerging infectious disease. Produced with…
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Biology & Life Sciences Genetically Modified InsectView Collection
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 BiologyView Collection
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 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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Biology & Life Sciences Conservation Stories from the Front LinesView Collection
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 2015View Collection
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 ReadsView Collection
"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: ConnectomicsView Collection
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 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…