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Autologous Peripheral Blood-Derived Orthobiologics for the Management of Elbow Disorders: A Review of Current Clinical Evidence. (2025)
Journal Article
Gupta, A., Migliorini, F., Bardazzi, T., & Maffulli, N. (2025). Autologous Peripheral Blood-Derived Orthobiologics for the Management of Elbow Disorders: A Review of Current Clinical Evidence. Pain and Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40122-025-00707-9

Elbow ailments are common, but conventional treatment modalities have shortcomings, offering only interim pain relief rather than targeting the underlying pathophysiology. The last two decades have seen a marked increase in the use of autologous peri... Read More about Autologous Peripheral Blood-Derived Orthobiologics for the Management of Elbow Disorders: A Review of Current Clinical Evidence..

Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes (2022)
Journal Article
Coon, K., Hegde, S., & Hughes, G. (2022). Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes. Microbiome, 10, Article 58. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01256-5

Background Mosquitoes harbor microbial communities that play important roles in their growth, survival, reproduction, and ability to transmit human pathogens. Microbiome transplantation approaches are often used to study host-microbe interactions and... Read More about Interspecies microbiome transplantation recapitulates microbial acquisition in mosquitoes.

High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences. (2022)
Journal Article
Boddé, M., Makunin, A., Ayala, D., Bouafou, L., Diabaté, A., Ekpo, U. F., …Lawniczak, M. K. (2022). High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences. eLife, 11, Article e78775. https://doi.org/10.7554/elife.78775

The ANOSPP amplicon panel is a genus-wide targeted sequencing panel to facilitate large-scale monitoring of Anopheles species diversity. Combining information from the 62 nuclear amplicons present in the ANOSPP panel allows for a more senstive and sp... Read More about High resolution species assignment of Anopheles mosquitoes using k-mer distances on targeted sequences..

Measures, Gaps, and Mitigation Strategies in Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Response (2022)
Journal Article
Haider, N. (2022). Measures, Gaps, and Mitigation Strategies in Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Response. EcoHealth, 378 - 389. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-022-01607-6

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread rapidly from China to most other countries around the world in early 2020 killing millions of people. To prevent virus spread, world governments implemented a var... Read More about Measures, Gaps, and Mitigation Strategies in Bangladesh’s COVID-19 Response.

Dynamics of DNA Replication during Male Gametogenesis in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum (2022)
Journal Article
Matthews, H., McDonald, J., Totanes, F., & Merrick, C. (2022). Dynamics of DNA Replication during Male Gametogenesis in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum. Cellular Microbiology, https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/2701868

Malaria parasites undergo a single phase of sexual reproduction in their complex lifecycle. It involves specialised, sexually committed cells called gametocytes, which develop rapidly into mature gametes and mate upon entering the mosquito midgut. Ga... Read More about Dynamics of DNA Replication during Male Gametogenesis in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum.

Rift Valley fever seropositivity in humans and domestic ruminants and associated risk factors in Sengerema, Ilala, and Rufiji districts, Tanzania (2022)
Journal Article
Sindato, C., Karimuribo, E. D., Vairo, F., Misinzo, G., Rweyemamu, M. M., Hamid, M. M. A., …Mboera, L. E. (2022). Rift Valley fever seropositivity in humans and domestic ruminants and associated risk factors in Sengerema, Ilala, and Rufiji districts, Tanzania. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 122, 559 - 565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.012

Objectives
Data on Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) prevalence in urban settings and pastoral areas of Tanzania are scarce. We performed a cross-sectional study of RVFV seroprevalence and determinants in humans and animals from Ilala, Rufiji, and Seng... Read More about Rift Valley fever seropositivity in humans and domestic ruminants and associated risk factors in Sengerema, Ilala, and Rufiji districts, Tanzania.

Analysis of protein-heparin interactions using a portable SPR instrument (2022)
Journal Article
Su, D., Li, Y., Yates, E., Skidmore, M., Andrade De Lima, M., & Fernig, D. (2022). Analysis of protein-heparin interactions using a portable SPR instrument. PeerJ Analytical Chemistry, 4, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-achem.15

<jats:p>Optical biosensors such as those based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) are a key analytical tool for understanding biomolecular interactions and function as well as the quantitative analysis of analytes in a wide variety of settings. The a... Read More about Analysis of protein-heparin interactions using a portable SPR instrument.

MASTREE+: time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents. (2022)
Journal Article
(2022). MASTREE+: time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents. Global Change Biology, 3066-3082. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16130

Significant gaps remain in understanding the response of plant reproduction to environmental change. This is partly because measuring reproduction in long-lived plants requires direct observation over many years and such datasets have rarely been mad... Read More about MASTREE+: time-series of plant reproductive effort from six continents..

Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts (2022)
Journal Article
Haider, N. (2022). Emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern Omicron (B.1.1.529) - highlights Africa's research capabilities, but exposes major knowledge gaps, inequities of vaccine distribution, inadequacies in global COVID-19 response and control efforts. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 268 - 272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.11.040

Whole-genome-scale identification of novel non-protein-coding RNAs controlling cell proliferation and survival through a functional forward genetics strategy (2022)
Journal Article
Darling, D., Farzaneh, F., Williams, G., & Tonge, D. (2022). Whole-genome-scale identification of novel non-protein-coding RNAs controlling cell proliferation and survival through a functional forward genetics strategy. Scientific reports, 12, Article 182. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03983-5

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Identification of cell fate-controlling lncRNAs is essential to our understanding of molecular cell biology. Here we present a human genome-scale forward-genetics approach for the identification of lncRNAs bas... Read More about Whole-genome-scale identification of novel non-protein-coding RNAs controlling cell proliferation and survival through a functional forward genetics strategy.

Therapeutic Effects of Hypoxic and Pro-Inflammatory Priming of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Inflammatory Arthritis (2021)
Journal Article
Kay, A. G., Roach, P., Morgan, R., Lodge, R., Hyland, M., Piccinini, A. M., …Treadwell, K. (2021). Therapeutic Effects of Hypoxic and Pro-Inflammatory Priming of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Inflammatory Arthritis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(1), 126 - 126. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23010126

<jats:p>Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) immunomodulate inflammatory responses through paracrine signalling, including via secretion of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the cell secretome. We evaluated the therapeutic potential of MSCs-derived small EVs... Read More about Therapeutic Effects of Hypoxic and Pro-Inflammatory Priming of Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Derived Extracellular Vesicles in Inflammatory Arthritis.

Socio-Ecological Systems Analysis and Health System Readiness in Responding to Dengue Epidemics in Ilala and Kinondoni Districts, Tanzania (2021)
Journal Article
Sindato, C., Mboera, L., Mremi, I., Rumisha, S., George, J., Karimuribo, E., …Kock, R. (2021). Socio-Ecological Systems Analysis and Health System Readiness in Responding to Dengue Epidemics in Ilala and Kinondoni Districts, Tanzania. Frontiers in Tropical Diseases, 2, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fitd.2021.738758

<jats:sec><jats:title>Introduction</jats:title><jats:p>Since 2010, Tanzania has been experiencing frequent outbreaks of dengue. The objectives of this study were to carry out a socio-ecological systems (SES) analysis to identify risk factors and inte... Read More about Socio-Ecological Systems Analysis and Health System Readiness in Responding to Dengue Epidemics in Ilala and Kinondoni Districts, Tanzania.

Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika in eight districts in Tanzania (2021)
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Misinzo, G., Rweyemamu, M., Karimuribo, E., Abdel Hamid, M., Haider, N., Kock, R., …Rumisha, S. (2021). Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika in eight districts in Tanzania. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 271 - 280. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.08.040

Background: This study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors of chikungunya (CHIKV), dengue (DENV), and Zika (ZIKV) viruses in Tanzania.
Methods: The study covered the districts of Buhigwe, Kalambo, Kilindi, Kinondoni, Kondo... Read More about Seroprevalence and associated risk factors of chikungunya, dengue, and Zika in eight districts in Tanzania.

Differential retinoic acid signaling in the hippocampus of aged rats with and without memory impairment. (2021)
Journal Article
Wołoszynowska-Fraser, M., Rossi, S., Long, J., McCaffery, P., & Rapp, P. (2021). Differential retinoic acid signaling in the hippocampus of aged rats with and without memory impairment. eNeuro, https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0120-21.2021

Retinoic acid (RA), a metabolite of vitamin A, has many physiological functions, and mounting evidence points to important roles in cognition. In vitro experiments indicate that RA is involved in homeostatic synaptic scaling in the hippocampus, which... Read More about Differential retinoic acid signaling in the hippocampus of aged rats with and without memory impairment..

Structural studies of C-reactive protein (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Collister, S., Neale, W., Littlejohn, J., Greenhough, T., & Shrive, A. (2021, August). Structural studies of C-reactive protein. Poster presented at XXV IUCr Congress, Prague, Czech Republic

The measurement and full statistical analysis including Bayesian methods of the aluminium content of infant vaccines. (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). The measurement and full statistical analysis including Bayesian methods of the aluminium content of infant vaccines. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 1- 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2021.126762

BACKGROUND: Aluminium salts are the most common adjuvants in infant vaccines. The aluminium content of a vaccine is provided by the manufacturer and is indicated on the patient information leaflet. There is no independent verification, for example by... Read More about The measurement and full statistical analysis including Bayesian methods of the aluminium content of infant vaccines..