pertussis, creativity, paternal dietary folate and pregnancy, gender gap in research funding, serotonin
- Acellular pertussis vaccines protect against disease but fail to prevent infection and transmission in a nonhuman primate model
- “… nonhuman primates vaccinated with [acellular pertussis vaccines] were protected from severe symptoms but not infection and readily transmitted Bordetella pertussis to contacts… key differences in T-cell memory suggest [acellular pertussis] vaccination induces a suboptimal immune response that is unable to prevent infection. These data provide a plausible explanation for pertussis resurgence…”
- Acellular pertussis vaccines protec… [Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI
- The Bias Against Creativity
- “… bias against creativity interfered with participants’ ability to recognize a creative idea. These results reveal a concealed barrier that creative actors may face as they attempt to gain acceptance for their novel ideas.”
- The bias against creativity: why people desire b… [Psychol Sci. 2012] – PubMed – NCBI
- Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations : Nature Neuroscience : Nature Publishing Group
- “Our findings provide a framework for addressing how environmental information may be inherited transgenerationally at behavioral, neuroanatomical and epigenetic levels.”
- Parental olfactory experience influences behavi… [Nat Neurosci. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI
- Low paternal dietary folate alters the mouse sperm epigenome and is associated with negative pregnancy outcomes
- “Paternal folate deficiency [in mice] is associated with increased birth defects in the offspring, which include craniofacial and musculoskeletal malformations.”
- Low paternal dietary folate alters the mouse sper… [Nat Commun. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI
- Differences in research funding for women scientists: a systematic comparison of UK investments in global infectious disease research during 1997–2010 — Head et al. 3 (12) — BMJ Open
- “There are consistent differences in funding received by men and women [principal investigators]: women have fewer funded studies and receive less funding in absolute and in relative terms; the median funding awarded to women is lower across most infectious disease areas, by funder, and type of science.”
- Differences in research funding for women scientist… [BMJ Open. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI
- Structure and function of the brain serotonin system
- Running in a minimalist and lightweight shoe is not the same as running barefoot: a biomechanical study — Bonacci et al. 47 (6): 387 — British Journal of Sports Medicine
- “Barefoot running was different to all shod conditions. Barefoot running changes the amount of work done at the knee and ankle joints and this may have therapeutic and performance implications for runners.”
- Running in a minimalist and lightweight shoe… [Br J Sports Med. 2013] – PubMed – NCBI