Assessing food vendor receptiveness to healthier options: a study of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and perceived barriers regarding salt, sugar, and oil reduction in cafeteria food vendors.

Background: Prioritizing policies that address major non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors, such as poor diet, is a cost-effective way to improve health outcomes. While education can enhance knowledge and practices in the short term, recent trends show that structural and policy-based initiatives, such as setting mandatory salt, sugar, and oil (SOS) targets are effective means of changing dietary behaviours and reducing NCD risk factors. However, few studies have surveyed the KAP of food vendors in workplaces and educational institutions and assessed their receptiveness to serving low-SOS dishes.

A CD123-specific chimeric antigen receptor augments anti-acute myeloid leukemia activity of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells.

To investigate whether anti-CD123 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-expressing Vγ9Vδ2 T cells could be an alternative for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) treatment. expanded Vγ9Vδ2 T cells were electroporated with anti-CD123 CAR-encoding mRNA. The effector function and specificity of the modified Vγ9Vδ2 T cells were examined by cytotoxicity, degranulation and cytokine release level.

Examining global electricity supply vulnerability to climate change using a high-fidelity hydropower dam model.

An important and plausible impact of a changing global climate is altered power generation from hydroelectric dams. Here we project 21st century global hydropower production by forcing a coupled, global hydrological and dam model with three General Circulation Model (GCM) projections run under two emissions scenarios. Dams are simulated using a detailed model that accounts for plant specifications, storage dynamics, reservoir bathymetry and realistic, optimized operations.