A former hepatitis virus researcher reminisces on the progress made and challenges remaining in the fight to eradicate chronic viral hepatitis. July…
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General World Hepatitis Day 2014 – Think Again
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General EH!WOZA: Leaving the Lab and Addressing TB Stigmas and Taboos
Anastasia Koch, a molecular biology PhD student in South Africa talks about engaging the community with biomedical research. As a molecular biology…
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General I’m a Scientist with Learning Disabilities and That’s Okay!
Post doc Collin Diedrich discusses his experiences as a learning disabled scientist. About a month ago, I was playing with my 3yr…
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General Everything You Always Wanted to See about Sex in Leishmania
Geneviève Lanotte (retired), Jean-Antoine Rioux (retired), and Jérémy Bouyer from CIRAD recount that cellular fusion in Leishmania was filmed in the 80s…
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Collections Lessons that Last: 200 Pearls and Counting
Please note that the Flipboard collection will no longer be updated starting January 2017. For the updated PLOS Pathogens Pearls collection, please see…
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General Challenging the Enemy-Tuberculosis- with Full Force
In the first of two linked posts for World TB Day, Sheetal Gandotra from the CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New…
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Tuberculosis Gaining Perspective from Performing HIV/M. tuberculosis co-Infection Research in South Africa
In the second of two linked posts for World TB Day, American post doc Collin Diedrich shares his experience researching M. tuberculosis/HIV…
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Tuberculosis Gaining Perspective from Performing HIV/M. tuberculosis co-Infection Research in South Africa
In the second of two linked posts for World TB Day, American post doc Collin Diedrich shares his experience researching M. tuberculosis/HIV…
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General State of Knowledge on MERS-CoV
Tweeterview with Tony Mounts from WHO http://storify.com/ploscurrents/state-of-knowledge-on-mers-cov-tweeterview-with-to…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: NTDs and the End fo the UN MDG, Understanding Defense Mechanisms at the Maternal-fetal Interface, Low-cost Field Microscopy, and More
The following new articles are publishing this week in PLOS NTDs: The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015, and…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: New Insights Into P. vivax Genome, How Viruses Protect Themselves Against RNA Decay Machinery, Imaging Schisotosomiasis Eggs with Cell Phone Cameras, and More
The following new articles are publishing this week in PLOS NTDs: P. vivax malaria is poorly understood as the parasite is difficult…
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General This Week in PLOS NTDs and PLOS Pathogens: NTD Elimination in a Shifting Policy Landscape, the Biology of Microbial Amyloids, Duplication of the Duffy Binding Protein Gene in P. vivax Strains
The following new articles are publishing this week in PLOS NTDs: The concept of NTDs was established in the aftermath of the…