Seamounts – submarine ‘mountains’ which can rise from the seafloor to heights of several km – are found in every ocean basin on Earth; there are at least 30,000 large seamounts that are over 1 km high, and hundreds of…
Guest blogger Dr Rachel ter Horst, medical advocacy advisor at M?decins Sans Fronti?re, discusses the recent Uniting to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases event in London.
Four acts in 90 minutes. A tight script that does not leave time for…
Travis’ Note: Today’s guest post comes from Registered Dietitian Julie Rochefort, in response to my post last week titled “Time to Watch My Weight“? ?More information on Julie can be found at the bottom of this post. ?On a…
On November 3rd, 2011, The White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy put out a call for public comment on Public Access to Scholarly Publications. A central aim of this review was to seek further guidance on “expanding…
Author: Renata Santillan
The current issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases presents a new collection of articles on the use of genetically modified (GM) insects for controlling some of…
Four new articles published in PLoS Medicine today, starting with the monthly editorial.
In the January editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors review the journal’s contents in light of its mission and scope, and call for papers on specific…
By rshah
Posted: January 31, 2012
In this edition of the PLoS Podcast, PLoS Biology Editor Ruchir Shah interviews Brian Pasley and Robert (Bob) Knight from UC Berkeley.? Brian is a postdoc in Bob’s lab, and Bob is the Director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Center…
By Kimberly Christen, Joshua Bell, and Mark Turin
On January 19, 2012, twenty-eight participants convened at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC for the “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge” workshop,…
Zotero 3.0 was officially released today. The big change in version 3.0 of the reference manager?is a standalone version that runs outside the Firefox browser. The first beta was released in August 2011.

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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases presents a new collection of articles on the use of genetically modified (GM) insects for controlling some of the most widespread infectious diseases. Articles from across the PLoS journals describe the technological advances these tools…