Publications by authors named "A O Koren"
Background: Plant breeding research heavily relies on wild species, which harbor valuable traits for modern agriculture. This work employed a new introgression population derived from Solanum pennellii (LA5240), a wild tomato native to Peru, composed of 1,900 genotyped backcross inbred lines (BILs_BC2S6) in the tomato inbreds LEA and TOP cultivated genetic backgrounds. This Peruvian accession was found resistant to the most threatening disease of tomatoes today, caused by the tobamovirus tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV).
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- The study investigated whether smartphone camera data can effectively detect anemia in children aged 6 months to 18 years.
- Conducted at Haemek Medical Center, it involved 823 patients, with specific exclusions for certain nail conditions and discolorations to ensure accuracy.
- Results showed varying effectiveness of different smartphone models in identifying anemia, with enhanced performance when supplemented with synthetic data, indicating potential for future non-invasive anemia screening tools for kids.
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- The study investigated how perceived discrimination and depression relate to persistent prescription opioid use (PPOU) among Puerto Rican adults in Massachusetts, where opioid overdose deaths are rising.
- Data from the Boston Puerto Rican Health Study indicated that both depression and perceived discrimination were linked to PPOU, with depression being a partial mediator of this association.
- The findings suggest that efforts to address opioid use in underserved communities should consider the impacts of discrimination and mental health, highlighting the need for tailored public health strategies.
Shortly after the first case of SARS-CoV-2 was diagnosed a public health emergency (PHE) was declared and a multi-agency response was initiated within the US federal government to create and propagate testing capacity. As part of this response, an unprecedented program designated Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Tech was established by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to facilitate the development of point-of-care tests for the COVID-19. The RADx Tech Clinical Studies Core (CSC), located at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMass Chan), with partnering academic, private, and non-governmental organizations around the country, was tasked with developing clinical studies to support this work.
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