The Study of Muscle, Mobility and Aging (SOMMA): a unique cohort study about the cellular biology of aging and age-related loss of mobility

SR Cummings, AB Newman, PM Coen… - The Journals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The Study of Muscle, Mobility and Aging (SOMMA) aims to understand
the biological basis of many facets of human aging, with a focus on mobility decline, by …

Geographically targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable and averts more deaths than age-based thresholds alone

E Wrigley-Field, MV Kiang, AR Riley, M Barbieri… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
COVID-19 mortality increases markedly with age and is also substantially higher among
Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations in the United States. These two …

Cognitive domain harmonization and cocalibration in studies of older adults.

S Mukherjee, SE Choi, ML Lee, P Scollard… - …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Studies use different instruments to measure cognitirating cognitive tests permit
direct comparisons of individuals across studies and pooling data for joint analyses. Method …

Food insecurity, memory, and dementia among US adults aged 50 years and older

H Qian, A Khadka, SM Martinez, S Singh… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Despite existing federal programs to increase access to food, food insecurity is
common among US older adults. Food insecurity may affect Alzheimer disease and …

Early pregnancy phthalates and replacements in relation to fetal growth: the human placenta and phthalates study

DR Stevens, EM Rosen, K Van Wickle, EE McNell… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Pregnant persons are exposed ubiquitously to phthalates and increasingly to
chemicals introduced to replace phthalates. In early pregnancy, exposure to these …

OpenPBTA: the open pediatric brain tumor atlas

JA Shapiro, KS Gaonkar, SJ Spielman, CL Savonen… - Cell genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Pediatric brain and spinal cancers are collectively the leading disease-related cause of
death in children; thus, we urgently need curative therapeutic strategies for these tumors. To …

Comparing two measures of neighborhood quality and internalizing and externalizing behaviors in the adolescent brain cognitive development study

L Beyer, R Keen, KA Ertel, SS Okuzono… - Social psychiatry and …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose There is widespread recognition of the importance and complexity of measuring
neighborhood contexts within research on child psychopathology. In this study, we assessed …

Toward open and reproducible epidemiology

MB Mathur, MP Fox - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Starting in the 2010s, researchers in the experimental social sciences rapidly began to
adopt increasingly open and reproducible scientific practices. These practices include …

A field guide for implementing a flipped classroom

P Poulain, M Bertrand, H Dufour… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The way flipped classrooms are perceived and even practiced by teachers is sometimes
approximate. For instance, while the Covid‐19 pandemic has pushed many universities to …

Develo** multidisciplinary mechanistic models: challenges and approaches

D Vedder, SM Fischer, K Wiegand, G Pe'er - Socio-Environmental …, 2024 - sesmo.org
Current biodiversity models often struggle to represent the complexity of global crises, as the
affected ecosystems are shaped by many different ecological, physical, and social …