Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified economic hardships, with potential negative impacts on food insecurity and infant feeding beliefs and practices. The relationship between food insecurity and infant feeding beliefs and practices during the pandemic is not yet fully understood. Neither is how these relationships changed over the course of the waves of the pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEarly detection of nuisance species is crucial for managing threatened ecosystems and preventing widespread establishment. Environmental DNA (eDNA) data can increase the sensitivity of biomonitoring programs, often at minimal cost and effort. However, eDNA analyses are prone to errors that can complicate their use in management frameworks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of an automated and reproducible process for copper-mediated click reactions of alkynes and azides into 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole products is described. This method utilizes prepacked capsules that contain all necessary reagents and materials for the reaction and purification processes. The reaction and product isolation steps are fully automated with no further user involvement, resulting in the triazole products in high purity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe detection of nucleic acids that are present in atypical conformations is a crucial trigger of the innate immune response. Human Z-DNA binding protein 1 (ZBP1) is a pattern recognition receptor that harbors two Zα domains that recognize Z-DNA and Z-RNA. ZBP1 detects this alternate nucleic acid conformation as foreign, and upon stabilization of these substrates, it triggers activation of an immune response.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Vaginal cuff dehiscence (CD) after hysterectomy is a rare but serious complication of robotic-assisted laparoscopic total hysterectomy (RLTH). The authors of this study aimed to compare the incidence and risk factors of CD following RLTH among patients with and without endometrial cancer.
Methods: This retrospective study included women aged 18 years or older who underwent RLTH by two surgeons at a single institution from 2013 to 2018.