Suchergebnisse - M. Collins

The RADx^SM Tech initiative required a massive mobilization of the biomedical community. It was chartered with the extremely ambitious goal of rapidly developing and deploying innovative tests to detect people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It needed to do so at a scale an...

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Seabirds are one of the most at-risk avian groups worldwide, and incidental catch in fishing practices is one of the top threats for seabirds globally. Seabirds that forage on fish through surface feeding, pursuit-diving, or plunge-diving are particularly vulnerable to bycatch. Bycatch mitigation so...

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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an age-related neurological disorder with increasing incidence and modifiable risk factors. People exposed to pesticides have up to a 2-fold higher risk of developing PD. Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) when using pesticides can lower an individual’s exposure....

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For over thirty years, an approach to the nomenclatures of human immunoglobulin (IG) and T cell receptor (TR) genes has operated successfully and has been widely supported by the research community. The principles behind the human nomenclatures were then applied to the development of nomenclatures f...

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Arsenic is an ubiquitous environmental toxicant with harmful physiological effects, including neurotoxicity. Modulation of arsenic-induced gene expression in the brain cannot be readily studied in human subjects. However, Drosophila allows quantification of transcriptional responses to neurotoxins a...

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<h4>Background</h4>Little is known about the impact of drug-resistance on clinical outcomes among patients with tuberculosis meningitis (TBM).<h4>Methods</h4>A retrospective cohort study among patients treated for TBM in Tbilisi, Georgia. We performed medical chart abstractio...

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<p>In 1966, drilling at Camp Century, Greenland, recovered 3.44 m of subglacial material from beneath 1350 m of ice. Although prior analysis of this material showed that the core includes glacial sediment, ice, and sediment deposited during an interglacial period, the subglacial material had n...

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Abstract INTRODUCTION Poor sleep is commonly associated with poorer cognition in older adults. Unfortunately, effective sleep improvement therapies for older adults are limited in their accessibility and have shown only subtle effects on cognition. Physical activity, however, is associated with bett...

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<h4>Background</h4>Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are major causes of respiratory infections globally. Viral and bacterial co-infections are commonly observed in respiratory infections and there is evidence that these pathogens interact syne...

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Introduction: Kidney disease impacts long-term outcomes of patients with granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) and microscopic polyangiitis (MPA). This post hoc analysis evaluated the effect of avacopan in a subgroup of patients with GPA or MPA and kidney involvement at baseline from the ADVOCATE t...

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