Due to the rapid urbanization of the world population, a better understanding of the detrimental
effects of exposure to urban air pollution on chronic lung disease is necessary. Strong …

Background Airflow limitation in COPD is due to a variable combination of small airway
obstruction and centrilobular emphysema (CLE) and/or panlobular emphysema (PLE), but the …

Background With rapid approval of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, the ability of clinical laboratories
to detect vaccine-induced antibodies with available high-throughput commercial assays is …

Background Particulate matter (PM) is present in lung tissues of smokers and urban dwellers.
This study was designed to quantify the burden of PM in different lung tissues of subjects …

Introduction: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) Áassociated renal dysfunction may abate
when TDF is replaced with abacavir (ABC). The extent to which the third drug atazanavir …

Biofilms comprising aggregates of microorganisms or multicellular communities have been
a major issue as they cause resistance against antimicrobial agents and biofouling. To date, …

We report the successful test flight of a device for generating and monitoring correlated
photon pairs under near-space conditions up to 35.5 km altitude. Data from ground based …

Critical illness in COVID-19 is an extreme and clinically homogeneous disease phenotype
that we have previously shown 1 to be highly efficient for discovery of genetic associations 2 . …

In autumn 2013, Ireland’s non-consultant hospital doctors went on a 24-hour strike to protest
at the Health Service Executive’s lack of compliance with the European Working Time …

A nanopore-based device provides single-molecule detection and analytical capabilities that
are achieved by electrophoretically driving molecules in solution through a nano-scale pore…