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Negative Results: A Crucial Piece of the Scientific Puzzle
Scientific advance relies on transparency, rigour and reproducibility. At PLOS ONE we have always supported the publication of rigorous research, in all its forms, positive or negative, as showcased in our earlier Missing Pieces Collection. In this 10th Anniversary Collection, A Decade of Missing Pieces Senior Editor Alejandra Clark revisits this important theme and highlights a decade of null and negative results, replication studies and studies refuting previously published work.
IWANN Special Collection 2019: Deep Learning Models in Healthcare and Biomedicine
By Ruxandra Stoean,Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Craiova, Leonardo Franco, Associate Professor of Computer Science, University of Malaga, Miguel Atencia, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Malaga, Gonzalo Joya, Professor of Electronics Technology, University of Malaga.
How the COVID-19 pandemic is teaching us to tackle the climate crisis
Authored by: Jan R. Baiker, Nadia Castro, Veruska Muccione, Christian Huggel, Simon Allen, Fabian Drenkhan Environment and Climate: Impacts, Risks and Adaptation (EClim) (https://eclim-research.ch), Department of Geography, University of Zurich The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our everyday life in an unprecedented way and has made us very conscious about the vulnerability of our modern society.
Understanding childbirth as a complex salutogenic phenomenon: the EU COST BIRTH Action Special Collection
Authored by Lucy Frith, Marie-Clare Balaam, Soo Downe July 2020 sees the launch of the PLOS Special Collection Understanding childbirth as a complex salutogenic phenomenon: the EU COST BIRTH Action. The Collection is a product of many years’ effort. It showcases the work produced by a team funded by the EU COST programme. This programme funds networks (called ‘Actions’) of academics, businesses, practitioners and others who are interested in exploring new fields and changing practice.
Introducing the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau Special Collection
By: Laura Cheever, MD, ScM, Associate Administrator, HIV/AIDS Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has launched a new PLOS Special Collection highlighting Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program’s (RWHAP) innovative approaches for data utilization and engagement of people with HIV who are not in care and not virally suppressed, critical...
Introducing Project SOAR’s HIV Implementation Science Research Collection: Timely Evidence to Guide the HIV Response
By Scott Geibel, Director, Project SOAR, Population Council & Eileen Yam, Deputy Director, Project SOAR, Population Council Recent advances in the global HIV response hold great promise for achieving control of the HIV epidemic.
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Neil McKenna, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine and Director of the Signaling Pathways Project, introduces a collaboration between PLOS Collections and the Signalling Pathways Project to connect datasets imported to the SPP Knowledgebase with their associated PLOS article in the ’Omics of Cellular Signaling Pathways Collection.
Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city
Urban ecosystems are expanding around the world as people migrate to cities and the human population continues to grow. What happens to other species as these urban ecosystems expand, and how species live and interact in established urban ecosystems, is the central focus of urban ecology.
Urban Ecology: where the wild meets the city
This is a Guest Post written by PLOS ONE Academic Editor Christopher Lepczyk Urban ecosystems are expanding around the world as people migrate to cities and the human population continues to grow. What happens to other species as these urban ecosystems expand, and how species live and interact in established urban ecosystems, is the central focus of urban ecology.
Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo ends
PLOS will no longer actively triage Ebola content for expedited review, but will continue to update the Ebola Channel with new content. The WHO announced this week that the outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is over. Teams from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reported that their investigational vaccination programme was completed on June 23 and due to there being no new cases since that date the outbreak is considered contained.
The PLOS Complexity Channel – Meet the Editors | PLOS Blogs Network
Chiara Poletto, Daniele Marinazzo, José Soares Andrade Jr. and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne announce the launch of the PLOS Complexity Channel. Most of today’s global challenges, from the spreading of online misinformation to Ebola outbreaks, involve such a vast number of interacting players that reductionism delivers little insight. Systems are often non-linear, exhibiting complexity in temporal and spatial domains, often over large scales, which is a challenge to predictability and comprehension.
Meet the Editors of the Antimicrobial Resistance Channel
Today sees the launch of the PLOS Antimicrobial Resistance Channel, developed in collaboration with the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP), a joint DNDi and WHO initiative. Channels are resources for research communities: a single destination to discover and explore content from PLOS journals as well as the broader literature, supplemented by commentary, blogs, news and more to keep readers up to date with the latest research in their field.
The Antimicrobial Resistance Channel – uniting the four pillars of AMR research | PLOS Blogs Network
PLOS, in collaboration with the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP), is delighted to launch the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Channel. This new Channel offers the AMR research community access to the latest research, as well as commentaries, blogs, news and discussions that span science, research and development, public health, and policy in the fight against AMR.
PLOS iGEM 2017 Collection – report | PLOS Blogs Network
PLOS and the iGEM Foundation are pleased to announce the initial launch of the iGEM 2017 Collection. This initial release includes 10 papers submitted as preprints to bioRxiv; additional submissions will be added as they are published. This year was PLOS and iGEM’s third year of partnership and our second holding the PLOS iGEM Realtime Peer Review Jamboree on the Breezio platform.
Meet Madhukar Pai, a PLOS Tuberculosis Channel Editor
Tell us about yourself and current research, and about how you came to be interested in tuberculosis? My research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. I trained as a doctor in India, and then got my PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. During my training in India, I worked on many infectious diseases, in an under-resourced environment. During my PhD, I decided to focus on TB in India.
Meet Thomas Baden, Channel Editor PLOS Open Source Toolkit | PLOS Blogs Network
Meet Thomas Baden, one of the PLOS Open Source Toolkit Channel Editors, and find out how he came to be a proponent of open source tools and a researcher working at the intersection of vision and neuroscience. Can you tell me about yourself and your current research, and how you came to be interested in this field? We are interested in how single and small groups of neurons compute information.
PLOS Responding to Climate Change Channel – Meet the Editors | PLOS Collections
Juan Antonio Añel, Vanesa Magar and João Miguel Dias announce the launch of the PLOS Responding to Climate Change Channel. Today sees the launch of the PLOS Responding to Climate Change Channel. Channels are resources for research communities: a single destination to discover and explore content from PLOS journals as well as the broader literature, supplemented by commentary, blogs, news and more to keep readers up to date with the latest research in their field.
Negative Results: A Crucial Piece of the Scientific Puzzle | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog
Scientific advance relies on transparency, rigour and reproducibility. At PLOS ONE we have always supported the publication of rigorous research, in all its forms, positive or negative, as showcased in our earlier Missing Pieces Collection. In this 10th Anniversary Collection, A Decade of Missing Pieces Senior Editor Alejandra Clark revisits this important theme and highlights a decade of null and negative results, replication studies and studies refuting previously published work.
Nine Years Devoted to Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: Reflections on an Unprecedented Public Health Intervention | PLOS Collections
Dr. Emmanuel Njeuhmeli has served as the Senior Biomedical Prevention Advisor at the Office of HIV/AIDS at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for the past nine years. He has been the voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) technical lead for USAID, providing support to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) programs in Eastern and Southern Africa for the introduction and acceleration of the scale-up of the VMMC program.
The Interdisciplinary Research Collection | PLOS Blogs Network
Accompanying the new PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary Collection: Interdisciplinary Research, PLOS ONE Senior Editor Renee Hoch discusses her article selections from the journal. PLOS ONE was established as an inclusive journal that considers primary research in all scientific disciplines. In contrast to journals with defined subject area niches, this broad scope enables us to serve as a publishing platform for work that spans multiple disciplines.
10 Years of PLOS ONE Research in the Media | PLOS Blogs Network
As one of the world’s largest multi- and interdisciplinary journals, PLOS ONE has seen press coverage over a wide range of areas in the past 10 years. In this 10th Annviversary collection we look back at just a small fraction of some of the notable cover PLOS ONE research has received. Given its ability to affect human health and lives, clinical and epidemiological research is understandably always of interest to the wider public and is frequently reported in the media.
10 Years of PLOS ONE Research in the Media | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog
Accompanying the new 10 Years of Research in the Media Collection, PLOS ONE Associate Editor, Nicola Stead discusses some of coverage received in the journal’s 10 year history. As one of the world’s largest multi- and interdisciplinary journals, PLOS ONE has seen press coverage over a wide range of areas in the past 10 years. In this 10th Annviversary collection we look back at just a small fraction of some of the notable cover PLOS ONE research has received.
Stressful Conditions That Cause Self-Eating: Autophagy within the Cell | PLOS Blogs Network
Modern life can be stressful and the effects of environmental stressors on the mind have been a topic of interest in recent times. However, how much do we know of how our environmental stress affects our bodies? The research area of autophagy focusses on the mechanisms our cells have evolved to combat stressful conditions: such as lack of nutrition, infection or excess damage caused by daily activities.
Important, Widely Used and Well-Reported Datasets | PLOS Blogs Network
The collection was assembled by PLOS ONE Senior Editor Meghan Byrne in collaboration with members of the PLOS ONE Editorial Staff , the PLOS ONE Editorial Board and the PLOS-wide Data Advisory Board There are many reasons to share data—ensuring reproducibility, promoting scientific progress, facilitating reuse and increasing the value of research, to name a few. Moreover, research shows data sharing correlates with higher quality research and increased citations rates.
Gathering for Open Science Hardware 2017: building a movement | PLOS Blogs Network
This post was collaboratively authored by Andre Maia Chagas, Max Liboiron, Jenny Molloy, Juan Manuel Garcia Arcos and Jeffrey Warren. Andre Maia Chagas is Channel Editor of the Open Source Toolkit. Without hardware, there is no science. Instruments, reagents, computers, and lab equipment are the platforms for producing systematic knowledge.
The Open Source Toolkit – meet the Channel Editors | PLOS Collections
The Open Source Toolkit features articles and online projects describing hardware and software that can be used in a research and/or science education setting across different fields, from basic to applied research. The Channel Editors aim to showcase how Open Source tools can lead to innovation, democratisation and increased reproducibility. The Open Source movement revolutionized the way computer systems were developed and how companies made their businesses.
The Veteran Disability & Rehabilitation Research Channel – Meet the Editors | PLOS Blogs Network
Today sees the launch of the first PLOS Veteran Disability & Rehabilitation Research Channel. Channels are resources for communities: a single destination that features curated content selected from PLOS journals as well as the broader literature, supplemented by commentary, blogs, news and discussions. The content included in a Channel is selected by experts in their field, known as Channel Editors.
Highly cited articles at PLOS ONE: Letting the community determine impact | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: Highly cited articles at PLOS ONE: Letting the community determine impact PLOS ONE launched 10 years ago with an exciting and experimental premise: all work that is scientifically sound and ethically conducted deserves to be published, independent of the impact one expects it will have in the community. The core requirement is that each study contributes to the base of scientific knowledge, not that it necessarily brings prestige to the journal and authors or creates a new paradigm.
UPDATE: Countdown to the PLOS iGEM 2016 Project | PLOS Blogs Network
The countdown is on to the PLOS iGEM 2016 live peer review jamboree, with just over two weeks to go, but it’s not too late for teams and reviewers to sign up and get involved! As detailed in our recent blog post, PLOS and the iGEM foundation have entered a second year of collaboration to publish work from the 2016 iGEM competition. This year, in an exciting new development, we will also be working with Breezio to host a real-time peer review jamboree.
PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary: Staff Editors’ Favorites | PLOS Blogs Network
In the first of the PLOS ONE 10th Anniversary Collections , the Staff Editors of the journal have each chosen their favoritearticle from the 10 year archive. In this accompanying EveryONE blog, the editors have also given insight into why they chose their selected article. Their picks showcase the breadth of varied research as chosen by the editors who know the journal best.
The PLOS WorldLeish-6 Collection – call for additional papers | PLOS Blogs Network
Dr Jorge Alvar, Head of Leishmaniasis, DNDi, and Dr Javier Moreno, Director of WHO Collaborating Center for Leishmaniasis, present the first five papers which launch the PLOS WorldLeish-6 Collection and call for further contributions. Last May we opened a call for papers for a PLOS Collection on Leishmaniasis, to accompany the 6th World Leish Congress (WL6) which will be taking place in Toledo, Spain in 2017.
Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health Around the Globe. A Call for Papers for a Maternal Health Task Force Collection | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health Around the Globe. A Call for Papers for a Maternal Health Task Force Collection Source: Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health Around the Globe. A Call for Papers for a Maternal Health Task Force Collection The causes of maternal mortality are complex and often begin well before a woman goes into labor or even becomes pregnant.
Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health Around the Globe. A Call for Papers for a Maternal Health Task Force Collection | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health Around the Globe. A Call for Papers for a Maternal Health Task Force Collection The causes of maternal mortality are complex and often begin well before a woman goes into labor or even becomes pregnant. Improving maternal health outcomes requires a comprehensive understanding of women’s health throughout the life course.
UN World Toilet Day 2016 | Speaking of Medicine
PLOS Medicine and PLOS NTDs reflect on 15 years of World Toilet Day and announce the WASH Collection. UN World Toilet Day highlights the urgent need to address a global sanitation crisis by providing toilets and sewage management systems and to aggressively implement programs of WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene).
Data sharing in a modern world; well, maybe not so modern | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: Data sharing in a modern world; well, maybe not so modern When I was asked to assist in selection of manuscripts to highlight for this collection, I was a bit stymied. What should be the most important inclusion criteria? The easiest place to start was to eliminate papers on which I’m an author. I don’t mention this because I am proud that my work was selected within the 80 + papers for me to review (obviously a conflict of interest).
Measuring Forest Conservation Effectiveness – How Effective Are Tropical Forest Conservation Policies? | PLOS Blogs Network
Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly called for more and better impact evaluation of conservation policies. The PLOS Measuring Forest Conservation Effectiveness Collection brings together a series of studies that evaluate the effectiveness of tropical forest conservation policies and programs, such as protected areas, forest law enforcement, payments for ecosystem services, certification, and community-based forest management.
iGEM REPORT: From Carbon Dioxide To Biofuel | PLOS Blogs Network
This work has been submitted for open review as an iGEM Report. Reviewers, please consider the following questions when reviewing the report: 1. Does the submission accurately and clearly report the experiment carried out? 2. Does the report adhere to the PLOS Data Policy? 3. Is the report presented correctly and well written? See iGEM Reviewer Instructions for more information. Please leave your review as a comment below the Report.
iGEM RESEARCH ARTICLE: E.Cotector: The Fluorescent E. coli with Surface Displayed Anti-Cancer Marker scFv to Detect Specific Cancer Markers | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: iGEM RESEARCH ARTICLE: E.Cotector: The Fluorescent E. coli with Surface Displayed Anti-Cancer Marker scFv to Detect Specific Cancer Markers This work has been submitted for open review as an iGEM Research Article Reviewers, please consider the following questions when reviewing the article: Research articles should meet the publication criteria for PLOS ONE (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/criteria-for-publication).
Expanding the Blue Marble Health Collection | PLOS Blogs Network
The concept “Blue Marble Health” was first put forward in a series of articles published in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Medicine beginning in 2011, together with a lead article in Foreign Policy, and now a new book published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Stated briefly, the original idea came in part when one of us (PJH) first moved to Houston, Texas to launch the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Expanding the Blue Marble Health Collection | Speaking of Medicine
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases co-Editor-in-Chief Peter J Hotez , Chief Editor of PLOS Medicine Larry Peiperl and Editorial Project Manager of PLOS Collections Nathaniel Gore on the latest update to the Blue Marble Health Collection. The concept “Blue Marble Health” was first put forward in a series of articles published in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Medicine beginning in 2011, together with a lead article in Foreign Policy, and now a new book published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Great Lakes Bioinformatics and the Canadian Computational Biology Collection | PLOS Blogs Network
The first joint Great Lakes Bioinformatics and the Canadian Computational Biology Conference 2016 (GLBIO/CCBC) took place in Toronto from May 16th to 19th. The conference was organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods. An important goal for the conference was to foster long-term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology.
iGEM RESEARCH ARTICLE: Development and Characterization of Fluorescent and Luminescent Biosensors for Estrogenic Activity | PLOS Blogs Network
Source: iGEM RESEARCH ARTICLE: Development and Characterization of Fluorescent and Luminescent Biosensors for Estrogenic Activity This work has been submitted for open review as an iGEM Research Article Reviewers, please consider the following questions when reviewing the article: Research articles should meet the publication criteria for PLOS ONE (http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/criteria-for-publication).
iGEM REPORT: Characterization of Azotobacter vinelandii and Kits for Its Synthetic Biology Applications
This work has been submitted for open review as an iGEM Report. Reviewers, please consider the following questions when reviewing the report: 1. Does the submission accurately and clearly report the experiment carried out? 2. Does the report adhere to the PLOS Data Policy? 3. Is the report presented correctly and well written? See iGEM Reviewer Instructions for more information. Please leave your review as a comment below the Report. # These authors contributed equally to this work.
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention - Introducing New Mathematical Models
This week PLOS launched a new collection, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention: New Mathematical Models for Prioritizing Sub-Populations by Age & Geography, featuring new modeling research that aims to help country decision-makers examine the potential effects of targeting sub-populations for voluntary medical male circumcision services.
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Source: iGEM REPORT: Combining the Biological Unnatural Amino Acid (UAA) Orthogonal Genetical System with Logic “AND” Gate Gene Circuit to Kill Bladder Cells Precisely This work has been submitted for open review as an iGEM Report. Reviewers, please consider the following questions when reviewing the report: 1. Does the submission accurately and clearly report the experiment carried out? 2. Does the report adhere to the PLOS Data Policy? 3. Is the report presented correctly and well written?
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This work has been submitted for open review as an iGEM Report. Reviewers, please consider the following questions when reviewing the report: 1. Does the submission accurately and clearly report the experiment carried out? 2. Does the report adhere to the PLOS Data Policy? 3. Is the report presented correctly and well written? See iGEM Reviewer Instructions for more information. Please leave your review as a comment below the Report.
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Source: iGEM REPORT: Termite Terminator: a genetically modified toxin proteins expression system with a cellulose nano-crystals delivery carrier for trapping termites based on trophallaxis This work has been submitted for open review as an iGEM Report. Reviewers, please consider the following questions when reviewing the report: 1. Does the submission accurately and clearly report the experiment carried out? 2. Does the report adhere to the PLOS Data Policy? 3.
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Source: The Importance of Detecting Sporadic Norovirus Cases in the Community Collection authors Miren Iturriza-Gómara and John Harris on the importance of detecting sporadic norovirus cases in the community Norovirus infects people of all ages across the world, and in high income countries it has been identified as the principal cause of vomiting and diarrhoea. Norovirus has also been identified as the leading cause of foodborne gastroenteritis.
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Dr Jorge Alvar, Head of Visceral Leishmaniasis, DNDi, and Dr Javier Moreno, Director of WHO Collaborating Center for Leishmaniasis, announce a call for papers on Leishmaniasis for the PLOS WorldLeish-6 Collection. There are currently 350 million people in 98 countries at risk of developing leishmaniasis, the vector-borne parasitic disease caused by various species of trypanosomatid protozoa in the genus of Leishmania.
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Source: What Factors Protect Against Norovirus Infection and Gastroenteritis? Sasirekha Ramani, Mary Estes and Robert Atmar, from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA, discuss genetic factors and immune mechanisms that can protect from norovirus infections and disease, as featured in the PLOS Collection “The Global Burden of Norovirus & Prospects for Vaccine Development“.
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