The skin is the human body’s largest organ. At 1.8 square meters for the average adult, skin covers about as much area…
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Biology Just Skin Deep — Your Immune System at the Surface
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Development Neglected Tropical Diseases: Challenges for the Post-2015 Development Era
This article is being cross-listed with the Harvard graduate student publication Signal to Noise, Special Edition on Infectious Disease. Health equity is based…
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Global Health Ebola Immunopathology and the Outbreak in West Africa
Ebola virus (EBOV) is a highly virulent pathogen, resulting in death by Ebola hemorrhagic fever in up to 90% of people who…
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The Student Blog Hallmarks of Cancer: Where do Parasites fit in?
I’m an immunologist, or a parasitologist, depending on whom you ask or who asks me. I investigate how parasites modulate the human…
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The Student Blog Bridging the Gap Between Undergraduate Education and Research
This is the first weekly student post on our relaunched PLOS Student Blog. Read about the blog’s purpose and scope on SciEd…