PLoS is getting ready for this year's ASTMH meeting (Washington, D. C., November 18–22), where you’ll find us at Booth 501 in…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLoS at ASTMH 2009 – Booth 501
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLoS NTDs: Providing Access to Innovation for the World’s Poor
This month’s editorial in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases introduces Serap Aksoy, who steps up as Editor-in-Chief alongside Peter Hotez. Together they examine…
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Open Access Creative Re-Use Demonstrates Power of Semantic Enhancement
A Review article published today in PLoS Computational Biology describes the process of semantically enhancing a research article to enrich content, providing…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases International Trachoma Initiative and Task Force for Child Survival and Development Announce New Merger
Partnership aims to eliminate blinding trachoma and scale up the fight against other neglected tropical diseases Guest blog by Ibrahim Jabr, President…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Guest Blog: Call for Scale-up of R&D for Neglected Diseases
By Oliver Yun, Medical Editor, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières, New York, NY Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Low-Hanging Fruit: An Anti-Parasitic Drug Database
A guest blog by Michelle Arkin and James McKerrow at The Sandler Center for Research in Parasitic Diseases and the Small Molecule…
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In the News BSE Case Associated with Prion Protein Gene Mutation
Last week, co-authors Jürgen Richt and S. Mark Hall published a groundbreaking article in PLoS Pathogens related to mad cow disease. The…
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In the News On the Origins of Syphilis
Did Christopher Columbus and his men introduce syphilis into Renaissance Europe, after contracting it during their voyage to the New World? Or…
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PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases “sneak preview”
Today PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases is thrilled to publish its very first set of what we like to call "sneak-preview" articles &mdash…
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Publishing Community Meeting to Focus on Diseases of Developing World
A meeting next week here in San Francisco will feature leading researchers discussing “open” modes of collaborative discovery with a special emphasis…