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- Four years after the EAT-Lancet landmark report, worldwide movements call for action to reorient food systems to healthy diets that respect planetary boundaries. Since dietary habits are inherently local and personal, any shift toward healthy and ...
- In 1955, René Dubos famously expressed his “second thoughts on the germ theory”, attributing infectious diseases to various “changing circumstances” that weaken the host by unknown mechanisms. He rightly stressed that only a small minority of individuals ...
- High plasma levels of histidine-rich protein II (HRPII), a secreted malaria protein, are associated with severe malaria, but the mechanism of HRPII virulence is not fully established. We observed that secreted HRPII in parasite culture and ...Histidine-rich protein II (HRPII) is secreted by Plasmodium falciparum during the blood stage of malaria infection. High plasma levels of HRPII are associated with cerebral malaria, a severe and highly fatal complication of malaria. HRPII has been shown ...
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- Sex-chromosome dosage (SCD) effects on human gene expression are central to the biology of sex differences and sex-chromosome aneuploidy syndromes but are challenging to study given the cosegregation of SCD and gonadal status. We address this ...A fundamental question in the biology of sex differences has eluded direct study in humans: How does sex-chromosome dosage (SCD) shape genome function? To address this, we developed a systematic map of SCD effects on gene function by analyzing genome-wide ...
- In time and money, one of the most expensive steps of the drug discovery pipeline is the experimental screening of small molecules to determine binding to a protein target of interest. Therefore, accurate high-throughput computational ...Sequence-based prediction of drug–target interactions has the potential to accelerate drug discovery by complementing experimental screens. Such computational prediction needs to be generalizable and scalable while remaining sensitive to subtle variations ...
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