Bioinformatics
November 2024
Motivation: Microbiome differential abundance analysis (DAA) remains a challenging problem despite multiple methods proposed in the literature. The excessive zeros and compositionality of metagenomics data are two main challenges for DAA.
Results: We propose a novel method called "Analysis of Microbiome Differential Abundance by Pooling Tobit Models" (ADAPT) to overcome these two challenges.
The enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect controls passive nanodrug uptake in tumors and may provide a high tumor payload with prolonged retention for cancer treatment. However, EPR-mediated tumor uptake and distribution vary by cancer phenotype. Thus, we hypothesized that a companion PET imaging surrogate may benefit EPR-mediated therapeutic drug delivery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this article, the authors wish to offer the product of their reflections on the concept of coercive control, and share various findings from their day-to-day practice. The text should be read as an invitation to clinical reflection on the conceptualization of a specific form of abuse. Reflection on this approach, initially ignored by the authors, has enriched clinical thinking on certain care situations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mood and anxiety disorders are highly prevalent and comorbid worldwide, with variability in symptom severity that fluctuates over time. Digital phenotyping, a growing field that aims to characterize clinical, cognitive and behavioral features via personal digital devices, enables continuous quantification of symptom severity in the real world, and in real-time.
Methods: In this study, N=114 individuals with a mood or anxiety disorder (MA) or healthy controls (HC) were enrolled and completed 30-days of ecological momentary assessments (EMA) of symptom severity.
The strongest genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) is allelic variation of the APOE gene, with the following risk structure: ε4 > ε3 > ε2. The biochemical basis for this risk profile is unclear. Here, we reveal a new role for the APOE gene product, apolipoprotein E (ApoE) in regulating cellular copper homeostasis, which is perturbed in the AD brain.
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