Understanding the Disparities of PM2.5 Air Pollution in Urban Areas via Deep Support Vector Regression.

In densely populated urban areas, PM2.5 has a direct impact on the health and quality of residents' life. Thus, understanding the disparities of PM2.

Effect of biotin on currently used Beckman thyroglobulin assay and newly reformulated thyroglobulin assay not affected by biotin.

Objectives: Biotin causes negative interference with thyroglobulin measurement using the Access thyroglobulin assay. Recently, Beckman reformulated the thyroglobulin assay to overcome biotin interference. We investigated the effect of biotin on both current and newly formulated assays.

Quantifying the impacts of Canadian wildfires on regional air pollution networks.

Wildfire smoke greatly impacts regional atmospheric systems, causing changes in the behavior of pollution. However, the impacts of wildfire smoke on pollution behavior are not easily quantifiable due to the complex nature of atmospheric systems. Air pollution correlation networks have been used to quantify air pollution behavior during ambient conditions.

HMGB1 mediates microbiome-immune axis dysregulation underlying reduced neutralization capacity in obesity-related post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2.

While obesity is a risk factor for post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, "long-COVID"), the mechanism(s) underlying this phenomenon remains poorly understood. To address this gap in knowledge, we performed a 6-week longitudinal study to examine immune activity and gut microbiome dysbiosis in post-acute stage patients recovering from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Self-reported symptom frequencies and blood samples were collected weekly, with plasma assessed by ELISA and Luminex for multiple biomarkers and immune cell profiling.