Infectious Disease

Determining the relative importance of risk and protective factors for adjustment disorder symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic by mixed-effects random forests.

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed individuals to numerous psychosocial and health-related st...

Computational approaches for identifying quorum sensing inhibitors.

Quorum sensing (QS) is a critical cell-to-cell communication mechanism employed by microorganisms to...

Correction: Machine learning-assisted SERS detection of pyrethroid pesticides in edible fungi using a magnetic nanosensor.

Silver nanoparticles in biomedicine: green synthesis, precision theranostics, and future clinical translation.

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are widely explored in biomedical sciences due to their unique physicoc...

Reconfigurable Selector-Only Memory (SOM) for Scalable Neuromorphic Computing.

Highly scalable reconfigurable neuromorphic devices are critical for addressing continual-learning c...

Quantitative RNA pseudouridine landscape reveals dynamic modification patterns and evolutionary conservation across bacterial species.

Pseudouridine (Ψ) modifications are the most abundant RNA modifications; however, their distribution...

Early Immunological Biomarkers for Personalized Treatment Selection in Severe COVID-19: Post Hoc Machine Learning Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.

BACKGROUND: Severe COVID-19 is a global health concern despite continuous vaccination campaigns beca...

Intracellular acidification by microbiota-derived valeric acid facilitates trans-kingdom ecology limiting Candida parapsilosis colonization.

In hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) patients, intestinal Candida parapsilosis expansion and trans...

Comprehensive multi-omics analysis identifies cancer subtypes and prognostic signatures of hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma.

Hepatitis B virus-associated hepatocellular carcinoma (HBV-HCC) is a heterogeneous malignancy with p...

Patient-specific modeling identifies metabolic interventions for reversing glucose use reprogramming in alcohol-associated hepatitis.

Alcoholic hepatitis (AH) is an acute form of alcohol-associated liver disease with very few treatmen...

Tuberculosis in households with infectious cases in Kampala city: Harnessing health data science for new insights on an ancient disease with persistent, unresolved problems.

Tuberculosis (TB) is prevalent in Uganda and overlaps with a high rate of HIV/TB coinfection. While ...

Food-derived antimicrobial peptides: advances in sources, mechanisms, structure-activity relationships, and AI-assisted design.

The persistent issues of food spoilage caused by microorganisms and the escalating challenge of anti...

Genomics-driven risk assessment of antimicrobial resistance: Current status, challenges, and future perspectives.

Antimicrobial resistance has become a major global public health challenge. However, conventional an...

Accurate prediction of mortality in children with sepsis: development and validation of an explainable model based on real-world data.

BACKGROUND: Sepsis remains the leading cause of in-hospital deaths among children, and there is curr...

Network analysis of pairwise relative tuberculosis transmission probabilities in Lima, Peru.

Identifying transmission events is important in understanding infectious disease dynamics. Such even...

Smartphone-based Detection of Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis in Ugandan Children: A Pilot Study.

Prompt diagnosis of group A streptococcal pharyngitis is essential for primary prevention of acute r...

Impact of nanocarrier mediated drug delivery systems: a deep dive into therapeutics and clinical management of breast cancer.

Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequently diagnosed malignancy and the leading cause of cancer-relat...

Artificial intelligence in paediatric chest imaging: applications, challenges, and future directions.

BACKGROUND: Paediatric chest imaging is central to diagnosing respiratory and cardiopulmonary diseas...

MeDiCNet: Integrating Multi-scale Dynamic Convolution and Enhanced Position-Aware Transformer for DNA Methylation Site Prediction.

DNA methylation is a covalent modification of cytosine and adenine bases that regulates gene express...

The Influence of Social Media Messaging on Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Attitudes and Confidence Among Adolescent Males: Group Discussion Study.

BACKGROUND: Despite the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine being available to males for the past 12 ...

Genomic and socioeconomic drivers of antimicrobial resistance forecast to 2050.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is rising worldwide, and a better understanding of the genetic and so...