Synthetic Biologist Dr. Jean Peccoud on the PLOS Synthetic Biology Collection. Since we launched the Synthetic Biology Collection in 2012, PLOS journals…
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Biology & Life Sciences The Second Life of the Synthetic Biology Collection
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Medicine & Health Sciences Reflecting on the Maternal Health Collections
In celebration of the MHTF-PLOS Maternal Health collaboration we take a look back through the collections and highlight some of the most…
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Research Analysis & Science Policy Positively Negative: A New PLOS ONE Collection focusing on Negative, Null and Inconclusive Results
“I never quit until I get what I’m after. Negative results are just what I’m after. They are just as valuable to…
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Biology & Life Sciences Starch, Oil, Water and Arsenic: New Plant Translational Research
PLOS launched a Collection last year, “The Promise of Plant Translational Research”. Here’s an update on how it’s going, and where we…
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Research Analysis & Science Policy Toward True Public Engagement in Science
As California struggles with a measles epidemic brought on by vaccine-refusing parents and surveys reveal that 80 percent of Americans support mandatory…
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Earth & Environmental Sciences Announcing the Latest Update to the Responding the Climate Change Collection
In December 2013 PLOS ONE published a unique article, Assessing “Dangerous ClimateChange: Required Reduction of Carbon Emissions to Protect Young People, Future…
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Medicine & Health Sciences Does Exposure to Smoking (Either Passive or Active) Lead to Increased Allergies?
Charles Ebikeme interviews Dr. Bahi Takkouche of the University of Santiago de Compostela and reviews his research on smoking and allergies, which…
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Computer & Information Sciences Software collection: Open Access meets Open Source in PLOS Computational Biology
The PLOS Computational Biology Software section was launched in 2011, with the express purpose of fostering the creation of open source software…
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Research Analysis & Science Policy Expanding the Homepages of Knowledge: the Topic Pages Collection in PLOS Computational Biology
Back in 2012 PLOS Computational Biology began an experiment that aimed to combine the prestige and rigorous peer review associated with publishing…
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Earth & Environmental Sciences The 2014 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection
Post authored by Collection Curator Ben Bond-Lamberty The impacts of climate change on global ecology, in its many forms and fields, were…
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Computer & Information Sciences PLOS Text Mining Collection
Post authored by Casey M. Bergman, Lawrence E. Hunter, Andrey Rzhetsky Text Mining is an interdisciplinary field combining techniques from linguistics, computer science…
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Biology & Life Sciences PLOS Neuroscience Collection
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system and is an interdisciplinary biological science that extends across multiple fields including chemistry…