There are errors in the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers: 81370701), the National Clinical Key Subject Construction Project (No.: AXA medical office letter [2013]544), the 2013 Program for Innovation Team Building at Higher Education Institutions in Chongqing, China and th...

This document is a summary of my Ph.D. Thesis. I was supervised by Prof. Dr. Roberto Hirata Jr. at the eScience laboratory, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Further, I did an oneyear internship at LITIS laboratory, INSA-Rouen, University of Normandy, France, under advise of Prof. Dr. Stephane Canu. My thesis work was financed by the funding agencies: CAPES, CNPq, FAPESP grant 2011/50761-2, NAP ...

Technologies Laboratory, for being my mentor for three years. I would also like to thank Todd McDevitt for giving me the opportunity to work in his lab. I would like to thank PURA for funding me for a semester.

In response to public outrage stemming from exposés of animal abuse in research laboratories, the US Congress in 1985 mandated Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) to oversee animal use at institutions receiving federal grants. IACUCs were enjoined to respect public concern about the treatment of animals in research, but they were not specifically instructed whether or not to p...

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BACKGROUND Despite the recent innovations in tuberculosis (TB) and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) diagnosis, culture remains vital for difficult-to-diagnose patients, baseline and end-point determination for novel vaccines and drug trials. Herein, we share our experience of establishing a BSL-3 culture facility in Uganda as well as 3-years performance indicators and post-TB vaccine trials (pi...

it is well-established that for a considerable period the united kingdom has spent proportionally less of its gross domestic product (gdp) on health-related services than almost any other comparable country. average european spending on health (as a % of gdp) in the period 1980 to 2013 has been 19% higher than the united kingdom, indicating that comparable countries give far greater fiscal prio...

I n a funding climate where funding research for the most prevalent malignancies such as breast and colorectal cancers is already highly competitive, researchers working on rare malignancies such as myelofibrosis or soft-tissue sarcomas face an even bigger challenge. Hundreds of cancers meet the criterion for a rare disease: a prevalence of less than 200,000 in the U.S. And researchers of these...

In light of the reemergence of pertussis (whooping cough), the pioneering research of Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering is worth revisiting. In the 1930s, working in the Michigan Department of Health laboratory in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, they began researching a pertussis vaccine. Their research offers an instructive case study of the creative public health research performed in state heal...

“SEM images were acquired at Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory Central research facilities, UIUC. Funding: We acknowledge University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Children’s Discovery Institute for financial assistance. Authors would like to gratefully acknowledge the kind support from Prof. Gang Logan Liu, ECE, UIUC and his laboratory for allowing us to use his inbuilt maskin...