Publications by authors named "E Palencia"
RNA extended interventional nucleic acid longitudinal study: Clinical performance of Aptima messenger RNA HPV testing in cervical cancer screening with a 9-year follow-up.
Cancer Cytopathol
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- There is a growing need for more long-term studies using the Aptima HPV test (AHPV) to ensure its safety for extended screening intervals, with REINA providing key insights into its clinical performance.
- This study involved 1,538 participants who underwent AHPV and liquid-based cytology (LBC) co-testing, revealing that AHPV has higher sensitivity and negative predictive value compared to LBC, leading to significantly lower risks for developing severe cervical conditions over 9 years.
- The findings support using AHPV for longer screening intervals beyond 5 years, demonstrating a strong protective effect from previous negative results and potentially reducing unnecessary treatments and referrals.
Article Synopsis
- The Higgs boson, crucial for the standard model of particle physics, helps mediate the weak force between elementary particles, and its mass is closely regulated by the model's symmetries.
- Researchers measured the mass of the boson using data from proton-antiproton collisions at the Tevatron collider, accumulating about 4 million candidates to achieve a very precise measurement.
- This new mass measurement shows a significant discrepancy with what is expected from the standard model, suggesting potential gaps in our current understanding of particle physics.
A search for the exotic meson X(5568) decaying into the B_{s}^{0}π^{±} final state is performed using data corresponding to 9.6 fb^{-1} from pp[over ¯] collisions at sqrt[s]=1960 GeV recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. No evidence for this state is found and an upper limit of 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn situ ergot alkaloid detection in three Balansia epichloe-infected grass species.
J Appl Microbiol
October 2018
Aims: The objectives of this work were to characterize molecularly the morphologically described endophyte Balansia epichloe symbiotic on three grass species, and to determine the in situ production of ergot alkaloids on these three symbiota.
Methods And Results: Balansia epichloe symbiotic with smut grass (Sporobolus poiretii), love grass (Eragrostis hirsuta) and lace grass (Eragrostis capillaries, a new host) were characterized using DNA barcoding. Laser ablation electro spray ionization (LAESI)-mass spectrometry was used to detect ergot alkaloids in situ for each symbiotum.
The CDF and D0 experiments at the Fermilab Tevatron have measured the asymmetry between yields of forward- and backward-produced top and antitop quarks based on their rapidity difference and the asymmetry between their decay leptons. These measurements use the full data sets collected in proton-antiproton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of sqrt[s]=1.96 TeV.
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