HCMV Vaccine Development Targets Immunomodulatory Proteins
Guest Commentary by Anamaris Colberg-Poley* Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) can cause severe disease in immunocompromised individuals and in congenitally infected infants, thus the development of an HCMV vaccine has been a national priority over the last few decades. Despite attempts similar to those which have proven successful for other herpesviruses, such as varicella zoster virus, attenuated HCMV […]
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Guest Commentary by Guangshun Wang* We are living in an era of antibiotic resistance; fortunately, there is widespread recognition of the consequences of this dilemma. While scientists have long been fascinated by the impressive diversity of antimicrobial peptides (also called host defense peptides) that exist in bacteria, protozoa, fungi, plants, and animals, there is a […]
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Guest Post by Franck Vazquez* During the last two decades the Central Dogma of Biology, which states that genetic information flows from DNA into messenger RNAs (mRNAs) via transcription, and from mRNAs into functional proteins via translation, has been shown to be far more complicated than what had long been accepted. Indeed, cells transcribe thousands of RNAs, which neither […]
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And as such, my first first-author paper (a review) is published! Functional Characteristics and Regulated Expression of Alternatively Spliced Tissue Factor: An Update mdpi.com/1273888 This review is part of a special issue on tissue factor in malignancy.
Two Different Views for Generalized Rough Sets with Applications mdpi.com/1273538 ##mdpimathematics عبر @MathematicsMDPI
tl;dr: College athletic success doesn't improve donations or applicant quality. And yet people will go on lying that it does. The Impact of College Athletic Success on Donations and Applicant Quality mdpi.com/2227-7072/7/2/… pic.twitter.com/NcPeKeJi45
CALL FOR PAPERS: You are invited to submit a paper to the Special Issue of #Sustainability on “Tourism Marketing and Sustainability in Challenging Times", edited by Dr. Heather Skinner @CorfuHeather and @NicholasCatahan via mdpi.com/si/48963 twitter.com/CorfuHeather/s…
I've been studying reasoning in young and old for almost 30 years. I'm aghast at how many psychologists suddenly suggest critical thinking is about "agreeing with experts" and not about "evaluating" the evidence. Do not perpetuate this fallacy. 👇 mdpi.com/2079-3200/9/2/…
I was asked to edit a volume on urban behavioral adaptations (i would ask to add plastic responses as well). Request from journal 'Animals' (open access). I was surprised by the IF: mdpi.com/journal/animals anyone keen on submitting for some such?
Pathogens, Vol. 10, Pages 1120: Treatment of Human Babesiosis: Then and Now dlvr.it/S7j1R7 @Pathogens_MDPI
Intravenous iron in non-hospitalized settings. A feasible option in accord with EMA recommendations. bit.ly/3kgimNJ
"#Remote #Sensing : #Soil #Salinity #Inversion in #Coastal #Corn #Planting #Areas by the #Satellite-#UAV-#Ground #Integration #Approach" doi.org/10.3390/rs1316… mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/1…
Check out this review of the relationship between neuroimaging and cognitive dysfunction in #MS patients. mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/3… pic.twitter.com/rofXigi94l
🔥✔Early-Bird #Discount Offers_4️⃣0️⃣% We would like to invite u to contribute a #review or #research article to our #Special Issue, with 40% #discount for #submissions before 30 Sept, & 25% discount for submissions before 31 Oct 2021 ✔mdpi.com/journal/agrono… @Agronomy_Mdpi pic.twitter.com/len09C04W7
Progressive Fibrosing Interstitial Lung Diseases (ILD): A Current Perspective #CurePF #PFWarriors bit.ly/3zg2Rtl Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a large and diverse group of rare and chronic respiratory disorders, with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) being the
New paper from the Geoffroy lab shows that aged cortical neurons demonstrate reduced neurite growth and impaired mitochondrial function, which may affect recovery after #SCI #aging #mitochondria mdpi.com/2073-4409/10/7…
New functions in morphomap to study asymmetry in long bones! Here our paper mdpi.com/1273202 published on @Symmetry_MDPI! R code and data available at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… We provide three strategies to map differences in the distribution of cortical thickness pic.twitter.com/9XEB2F5dJM