404 Awardee Talk - Healthy gut, healthy calf, productive life

Productive and Healthy Debate

.......This issue of IEEE Micro is a little bit different, to say the least. It includes four debates from the Computer Architecture Research Directions (CARD) workshop that was held as part of the 13th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture in February 2007. The organizers approached me about a special Micro issue about CARD and I said, ‘‘Why not?’’ W...

Towards healthy, productive genotypes

Selection for high productivity has been the long term focus of pig breeding programs worldwide, however, Rauw et al. (1998) highlighted that selection for productivity alone has unfavourable consequences for a number of metabolic, reproduction and health traits across species. More recently, Prunier et al. (2010) reviewed relationships between high physiological demands and the health and welf...

Healthy human gut phageome.

The role of bacteriophages in influencing the structure and function of the healthy human gut microbiome is unknown. With few exceptions, previous studies have found a high level of heterogeneity in bacteriophages from healthy individuals. To better estimate and identify the shared phageome of humans, we analyzed a deep DNA sequence dataset of active bacteriophages and available metagenomic dat...

Healthy life years (HeaLYs)

Years of healthy life.

Increasing the span of healthy life for Americans is one of the three broad goals of Healthy People 2000 (1). The years of healthy life measure has been selected for monitoring progress toward this goal. The sources and methods used for calculating years of healthy life are described in this issue of Statistical Notes. Estimated years of healthy life measures for 1990 for the total U.S. populat...