Research Insights

Research Insights section focuses on the cutting-edge and breakthrough research that is happening all over the world. Laboratories across the globe are working hard to develop drugs and therapies for various diseases and research insights directly from them add tremendous value.

Compositionally Aware Estimation of Cross-correlations for Microbiome Data

Sequencing data are ubiquitous in modern biology For example RNAseq data have been used to identify genes associated with clinical outcomes of cancer patients

A Cell Competition System with One Gene Expression from a Single-copy Gene in One Cell

Cell competition CC is a biological mechanism highly conserved from Drosophila to vertebrates and results in the elimination of less fit cells by their more fit neighbors

Analysis of Prognostic Factors in Critically Ill Patients with COVID-19

The Coronavirus Disease COVID caused by the SARSCoV virus emerged in late and rapidly evolved into a global pandemic impacting healthcare systems and economies worldwide

Targeting of Nanoparticles to the Cerebral Vasculature after Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury results in hospitalizations and deaths in the US each year annually While there have been multiple TBI clinical treatment trials todate none have been successful One major challenge

Identification of Circulating miRNAs as Fracture-related Biomarkers

Fracture nonunions affect many patients leading to functional and psychosocial disability Several risk factors have been described and include biological surgical and mechanical factors However none of them are able to determine

Parametric Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 Dose-response Models in Transportation Scenarios

There has been significant concern regarding the spread of SARSCoV on transportation systems The earliest superspreading events were associated with transportation on cruise ships Multiple incidents

A Novel Immunofluorescent Test System for SARS-CoV-2 Detection in Infected Cells

COVID is an acute respiratory infection caused by the coronavirus SARSCoV characterized by high contagiousness and mortality of the infected population which determines its high socioeconomic significance

Brain High-throughput Multi-omics Data Reveal Molecular Heterogeneity in Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer disease is a heterogeneous multifactorial neurodegenerative disorder pathologically characterized by amyloid plaques neurofibrillary tangles neuroinflammation and synaptic and neuronal loss

Baseline Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Non-responders in a Large Population-based Sample

Individuals with certain malignancies organ transplant recipients and immunecompromised individuals could mount either an incomplete or suboptimal antibody response to primary series vaccination

SARS-CoV-2 Variant Introduction Following Spring Break Travel and Transmission Mitigation Strategies

In the spring of surging SARSCoV cases kept most universities from inperson education and adversely impacted the learning experience of college students Implementation of a salivabased RTqPCR testing strategy