The future of food allergy diagnosis

Food allergy represents an increasing global health issue, significantly impacting society on a personal and on a systems-wide level.The gold standard for diagnosing food allergy, the oral food challenge, is time-consuming, expensive, and carries risks of allergic reactions, with unpredictable severity.There is, therefore, an urgent need for more a

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Calculating and comparing codon usage values in rare disease genes highlights codon clustering with disease-and tissue- specific hierarchy.

We designed a novel strategy to define codon usage bias (CUB) in 6 specific small cohorts of human genes.We calculated codon usage (CU) values in 29 non-disease-causing (NDC) and 31 disease-causing (DC) human genes which are highly expressed in 3 distinct tissues, kidney, muscle, and skin.We applied our strategy to the same selected genes annotated

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Am I Way Wrong on this One? On the Multiple Semantic Sources and Paths of Development of the Amplifier Way in American English

This article explores the diachronic semantic development of the intensifier way in American English.It has been claimed in the literature that the intensifying function of way derives from the use of spatial adverbial (a)way, but I propose that this may not be the only semantic source involved.This assumption is based on an examination of corpus d

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THE POSSIBLE CONFIDENTIALITY: THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AS PARTY IN THE ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION MECHANISM

This article debates the tension B Vitamins that exists between confidentiality, usual in ADRs, and the publicity principle, that rules the Public Administration in Brazil.As a solution points that the parameter of confidentiality when Public Administration is a party must be the preservation of accountability of the involved agencies, what means,

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