Mohammad H. Forouzanfar, Ashkan Afshin, Lily Alexander, H Ross Anderson et al.
BACKGROUND: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden of disease. By providing national and subnational assessments spanning the past 25 years, this study can inform debat...
Keyan Zhao, Chih‐Wei Tung, Georgia C. Eizenga, Mark H. Wright et al.
Asian rice, Oryza sativa is a cultivated, inbreeding species that feeds over half of the world's population. Understanding the genetic basis of diverse physiological, developmental, and morphological traits provides the basis for improving yield, quality and sustainability of rice. Here we show the ...
Yeru Liang, Chen‐Zi Zhao, Hong Yuan, Yuan Chen et al.
Abstract Portable electronic devices (PEDs) are promising information‐exchange platforms for real‐time responses. Their performance is becoming more and more sensitive to energy consumption. Rechargeable batteries are the primary energy source of PEDs and hold the key to guarantee their desired perf...
Mahshid Dehghan, Andrew Mente, Xiaohe Zhang, Sumathi Swaminathan et al.
Background The relationship between macronutrients and cardiovascular disease and mortality is controversial. Most available data are from European and North American populations where nutrition excess is more likely, so their applicability to other populations is unclear. Methods The Prospective Ur...
Zhaoyan Luo, Yixin Ouyang, Hao Zhang, Meiling Xiao et al.
Abstract Lacking strategies to simultaneously address the intrinsic activity, site density, electrical transport, and stability problems of chalcogels is restricting their application in catalytic hydrogen production. Herein, we resolve these challenges concurrently through chemically activating the...
Georg Ehret, Teresa Ferreira, Daniel I. Chasman, Anne Jackson et al.
To dissect the genetic architecture of blood pressure and assess effects on target organ damage, we analyzed 128,272 SNPs from targeted and genome-wide arrays in 201,529 individuals of European ancestry, and genotypes from an additional 140,886 individuals were used for validation. We identified 66 ...
Khorshed Alam, Arpita Mazumder, Suranjana Sikdar, Yiming Zhao et al.
Natural products derived from microorganisms serve as a vital resource of valuable pharmaceuticals and therapeutic agents. Streptomyces is the most ubiquitous bacterial genus in the environments with prolific capability to produce diverse and valuable natural products with significant biological act...
CARDIoGRAMplusC4D, Joanna M. M. Howson, EPIC-CVD, Wei Zhao et al.
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although 58 genomic regions have been associated with CAD thus far, most of the heritability is unexplained, indicating that additional susceptibility loci await identification. An efficient discovery strategy may...
Cindy Q. Tang, Tetsuya Matsui, Haruka Ohashi, Yi-Fei Dong et al.
Today East Asia harbors many "relict" plant species whose ranges were much larger during the Paleogene-Neogene and earlier. The ecological and climatic conditions suitable for these relict species have not been identified. Here, we map the abundance and distribution patterns of relict species, showi...
Wei Zhao, Asif Rasheed, Emmi Tikkanen, Jung‐Jin Lee et al.
To evaluate the shared genetic etiology of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD), we conducted a genome-wide, multi-ancestry study of genetic variation for both diseases in up to 265,678 subjects for T2D and 260,365 subjects for CHD. We identify 16 previously unreported loci for T2D...
Patrick Munk, Christian Brinch, Frederik Duus Møller, Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global health. Understanding the emergence, evolution, and transmission of individual antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is essential to develop sustainable strategies combatting this threat. Here, we use metagenomic sequencing to analyse ARGs in 7...
Gina Mills, Katrina Sharps, David Simpson, Håkan Pleijel et al.
Increasing both crop productivity and the tolerance of crops to abiotic and biotic stresses is a major challenge for global food security in our rapidly changing climate. For the first time, we show how the spatial variation and severity of tropospheric ozone effects on yield compare with effects of...
Dongyuan Han, Jie Wang, Lorenzo Agosta, Ziang Zang et al.
Lead-free perovskite light-emitting diodes (LEDs) prepared using tautomeric mixture coordination provide improved ordering in the crystal structure, reduced recombination and enhanced exciton binding energy compared with lead-containing perovskite-based LEDs. Lead halide perovskite light-emitting di...
Effi Haque, Hiroaki Taniguchi, Md Mahmudul Hassan, Pankaj Bhowmik et al.
The world population is expected to increase from 7.3 to 9.7 billion by 2050. Pest outbreak and increased abiotic stresses due to climate change pose a high risk to tropical crop production. Although conventional breeding techniques have significantly increased crop production and yield, new approac...
Zhanglei Pan, Jian Zhou, Ziyuan Lin, Yingmu Wang et al.
High salinity and high organic concentration impose negative impacts on autotrophic nitrification, which hinders efficient nitrogen removal. To achieve efficient nitrogen removal, high saline wastewater nitrogen removal systems with different COD/TN ratios based on heterotrophic nitrification-aerobi...