Improving the availability of high quality diagnostic tests for infectious diseases is a global priority.Lack of access by people living in low income countries may deprive them of life saving treatment and reduces opportunities to prevent onward transmission and spread of the disease.Diagnostic laboratories are often poorly resourced in developing
The current healthcare environment is at risk due to the facilitated transmission and empowerment of the ESKAPE pathogens, comprising of Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter species.These pathogens have posed significant challenges to global public heal
Though an outstanding achievement for their time, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps of the eastern Alaskan Arctic nonetheless contain significant errors, and in this paper we address one of them.Specifically, USGS maps of different scale made in the late 1950s alternate between Mt.Chamberlin and Mt.Isto as the tallest peak
Arsenite-resistance protein 2 (Ars2) is an important nuclear protein involved in various RNA metabolisms in animals and plants, but no Ars2 ortholog has been studied in filamentous fungi.Although it is an essential gene in most model eukaryotes, FgARS2 null mutants were viable in the plant pathogenic fungus Fusarium graminearum.The deletion of FgAR
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is currently a major health issue.As one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, SNHL is associated with the degradation of hair Grit cells (HCs), spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs), the stria vascularis, supporting cells and central auditory system cells.Autophagy is a highly integrated cellular system that eli