Life Sciences

Yang W. Huan, Vincenzo Torraca, Russell Brown, Jidapha Fa-arun, Sydney L. Miles, Diego A. Oyarzún, Serge Mostowy and Baojun Wang 2023. P1 Bacteriophage-Enabled Delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 Antimicrobial Activity Against Shigella flexneri. ACS Synthetic Biology. 12 (3), pp. 709-721. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssynbio.2c00465

Nicolas Basty, Elena P. Sorokin, Marjola Thanaj, Brandon Whitcher, Yi Liu, Jimmy D. Bell, E. Louise Thomas and Madeleine Cule 2023. Preprint: Cardiovascular measures from abdominal MRI provide insights into abdominal vessel genetic architecture. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.02.22278060

Chan, Stefanie Ho Yi, Sheikh, Khalid, Zariwala, Mohammed Gulrez and Somavarapu, Satyanarayana 2023. Dry Powder Formulation of Azithromycin for COVID-19 Therapeutics. Journal of Microencapsulation. 40 (4), pp. 217-232. https://doi.org/10.1080/02652048.2023.2175924

Mohammed, M. 2023. Dr Manal Mohammed for CNN on how often you should wear your clothes without washing them. CNN.

Ball, Katherine 2023. The Model Diet: Building a tailored dietary intervention for fashion models to meet the needs of the individual and the occupational and social constraints of the fashion industry. PhD thesis University of Westminster Life Sciences https://doi.org/10.34737/w180z

Mueller, Stefanie H, Lai, Alvina G, Valkovskaya, Maria, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Bolla, Manjeet K, Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Lush, Michael, Abu-Ful, Zomoruda, Ahearn, Thomas U, Andrulis, Irene L, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia N, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J, Augustinsson, Annelie, Baert, Thais, Freeman, Laura E Beane, Beckmann, Matthias W, Behrens, Sabine, Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Blomqvist, Carl, Bogdanova, Natalia V, Bojesen, Stig E, Bonanni, Bernardo, Brenner, Hermann, Brucker, Sara Y, Buys, Saundra S, Castelao, Jose E, Chan, Tsun L, Chang-Claude, Jenny, Chanock, Stephen J, Choi, Ji-Yeob, Chung, Wendy K, NBCS Collaborators, Colonna, Sarah V, CTS Consortium, Cornelissen, Sten, Couch, Fergus J, Czene, Kamila, Daly, Mary B, Devilee, Peter, Dörk, Thilo, Dossus, Laure, Dwek, Miriam, Eccles, Diana M, Ekici, Arif B, Eliassen, A Heather, Engel, Christoph, Evans, D Gareth, Fasching, Peter A, Fletcher, Olivia, Flyger, Henrik, Gago-Dominguez, Manuela, Gao, Yu-Tang, García-Closas, Montserrat, García-Sáenz, José A, Genkinger, Jeanine, Gentry-Maharaj, Aleksandra, Grassmann, Felix, Guénel, Pascal, Gündert, Melanie, Haeberle, Lothar, Hahnen, Eric, Haiman, Christopher A, Håkansson, Niclas, Hall, Per, Harkness, Elaine F, Harrington, Patricia A, Hartikainen, Jaana M, Hartman, Mikael, Hein, Alexander, Ho, Weang-Kee, Hooning, Maartje J, Hoppe, Reiner, Hopper, John L, Houlston, Richard S, Howell, Anthony, Hunter, David J, Huo, Dezheng, ABCTB Investigators, Ito, Hidemi, Iwasaki, Motoki, Jakubowska, Anna, Janni, Wolfgang, John, Esther M, Jones, Michael E, Jung, Audrey, Kaaks, Rudolf, Kang, Daehee, Khusnutdinova, Elza K, Kim, Sung-Won, Kitahara, Cari M, Koutros, Stella, Kraft, Peter, Kristensen, Vessela N, Kubelka-Sabit, Katerina, Kurian, Allison W, Kwong, Ava, Lacey, James V, Lambrechts, Diether, Le Marchand, Loic, Li, Jingmei, Linet, Martha, Lo, Wing-Yee, Long, Jirong, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Mannermaa, Arto, Manoochehri, Mehdi, Margolin, Sara, Matsuo, Keitaro, Mavroudis, Dimitrios, Menon, Usha, Muir, Kenneth, Murphy, Rachel A, Nevanlinna, Heli, Newman, William G, Niederacher, Dieter, O'Brien, Katie M, Obi, Nadia, Offit, Kenneth, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Olshan, Andrew F, Olsson, Håkan, Park, Sue K, Patel, Alpa V, Patel, Achal, Perou, Charles M, Peto, Julian, Pharoah, Paul D P, Plaseska-Karanfilska, Dijana, Presneau, Nadege, Rack, Brigitte, Radice, Paolo, Ramachandran, Dhanya, Rashid, Muhammad U, Rennert, Gad, Romero, Atocha, Ruddy, Kathryn J, Ruebner, Matthias, Saloustros, Emmanouil, Sandler, Dale P, Sawyer, Elinor J, Schmidt, Marjanka K, Schmutzler, Rita K, Schneider, Michael O, Scott, Christopher, Shah, Mitul, Sharma, Priyanka, Shen, Chen-Yang, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Simard, Jacques, Surowy, Harald, Tamimi, Rulla M, Tapper, William J, Taylor, Jack A, Teo, Soo Hwang, Teras, Lauren R, Toland, Amanda E, Tollenaar, Rob A E M, Torres, Diana, Torres-Mejía, Gabriela, Troester, Melissa A, Truong, Thérèse, Vachon, Celine M, Vijai, Joseph, Weinberg, Clarice R, Wendt, Camilla, Winqvist, Robert, Wolk, Alicja, Wu, Anna H, Yamaji, Taiki, Yang, Xiaohong R, Yu, Jyh-Cherng, Zheng, Wei, Ziogas, Argyrios, Ziv, Elad, Dunning, Alison M, Easton, Douglas F, Hemingway, Harry, Hamann, Ute and Kuchenbaecker, K. 2023. Aggregation tests identify new gene associations with breast cancer in populations with diverse ancestry. Genome Medicine. 15 (1), p. 7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-022-01152-5

Gibson, R., Lewis, J., Hilberink, A., Philippou, E., Wilson, D., Theobald, H.E., Sum, K., David, D., Alawfi, J.S., Roper, H.J., Makinwa, F., Lessons, G., Clark, A., Maynard, N., Viner, L. and Hall, W.L. 2023. Proceedings of a roundtable event ‘Workplace Diet and Health – priorities for researchers and practitioners’. Nutrition Bulletin. 48 (1), pp. 144-153. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12605

Safi, A., Khawaja, I., Collins, P. and Myers, T. 2023. A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring the Physical Activity Levels of Afghans and Other South Asian Youth in the UK. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20 (2), pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021087

Mursaleen, L., Chan, S., Noble, B., Somavarapu, S. and Zariwala, M. 2023. Curcumin and N-Acetylcysteine Nanocarriers Alone or Combined with Deferoxamine Target the Mitochondria and Protect against Neurotoxicity and Oxidative Stress in a Co-Culture Model of Parkinson’s Disease. Antioxidants. 12 (1) 130. https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox12010130

Allen, Sophie L., Elliott, Bradley T., Carson, Brian P. and Breen, Leigh 2023. Improving Physiological Relevance of Cell Culture: The Possibilities, Considerations and Future Directions of the Ex Vivo Co-Culture Model. American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology. 324 (2), pp. C420-C427. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpcell.00473.2022

Basty, N., Thanaj, M., Cule, M., Sorokin, E., Liu, Y., Thomas, E.L., Bell, J.D. and Whitcher, B. 2023. Artifact-Free Fat-Water Separation in Dixon MRI using Deep Learning. Journal of Big Data. 10 4. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-022-00677-1

Esposito, Fortunato Palma, Vecchiato, Vittoria, Buonocore, Carmine, Tedesco, Pietro, Noble, Brendon, Basnett, Pooja and de Pascale, Donatella 2023. Enhanced production of biobased, biodegradable, Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) using an unexplored marine bacterium Pseudohalocynthiibacter aestuariivivens, isolated from highly polluted coastal environment. Bioresource Technology. 368, p. 128287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2022.128287

Lange, S. 2023. Special Issue "The Exposome in Immune Evolution, Health and Disease". Biology.

Allen, K., Safi, A. and Deb, S. 2023. An exploration into the impact that shift work has on the nutritional behaviours of UK police officers. British Journal of Nutrition. 130 (2), pp. 284-293. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007114522002999

Allesøe, Rosa Lundbye, Lundgaard, A., Hernández Medina, R., Aguayo-Orozco, Alejandro, Johansen, J., Nissen, Jakob Nybo, Brorsson, Caroline, Mazzoni, Gianluca, Niu, L., Biel, J., Brasas, Valentas, Webel, Henry, Benros, M., Pedersen, A., Chmura, Piotr Jaroslaw, Jacobsen, U., Mari, Andrea, Koivula, R., Mahajan, Anubha, Vinuela, A., Tajes, Juan Fernandez, Sharma, Sapna, Haid, M., Hong, M., Musholt, Petra B, De Masi, Federico, Vogt, Josef, Pedersen, Helle Krogh, Gudmundsdottir, Valborg, Jones, Angus, Kennedy, G., Bell, Jimmy, Thomas, E.L., Frost, G., Thomsen, Henrik, Hansen, Elizaveta, Hansen, T., Vestergaard, Henrik, Muilwijk, Mirthe, Blom, Marieke T, 't Hart, Leen M, Pattou, Francois, Raverdy, Violeta, Brage, Soren, Kokkola, Tarja, Heggie, Alison, McEvoy, Donna, Mourby, Miranda, Kaye, J., Hattersley, A., McDonald, Timothy, Ridderstråle, M., Walker, Mark, Forgie, Ian, Giordano, Giuseppe N, Pavo, Imre, Ruetten, Hartmut, Pedersen, O., Hansen, T., Dermitzakis, Emmanouil, Franks, Paul W, Schwenk, J., Adamski, Jerzy, McCarthy, Mark I, Pearson, Ewan, Banasik, Karina, Rasmussen, S., Brunak, S. and IMI DIRECT Consortium 2023. Discovery of drug-omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models. Nature Biotechnology. 41, pp. 399-408. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-022-01520-x

Thanaj, M., Basty, N., Cule, M., Sorokin, E.P., Whitcher, B., Bell, J.D. and Thomas, E.L. 2023. Preprint: Liver Shape Analysis using Statistical Parametric Maps at Population Scale. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.18.22278951

Hoan Van Ngo, Stevens Robertin, Dominik Brokatzky, Magdalena K. Bielecka, Damián Lobato‐Márquez, Vincenzo Torraca and Serge Mostowy 2023. Septins promote caspase activity and coordinate mitochondrial apoptosis. Cytoskeleton. 80 (7/8), pp. 254-265. https://doi.org/10.1002/cm.21696

Bagheri, Reza, Ashtary-Larky, Damoon, Elliott, B., Willoughby, Darryn S., Kargarfard, Mehdi, Alipour, Meysam, Lamuchi-Deli, Nasrin, Kooti, Wesam, Asbaghi, Omid and Wong, Alexei 2023. The effects of gradual vs. rapid weight loss on serum concentrations of myokines and body composition in overweight and obese females. Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry. 129 (3), pp. 821-828. https://doi.org/10.1080/13813455.2021.1874020

Keith, R. 2022. Free School Meals impact . BBC London radio

Borna, M., Woloshynowych, M., Schiano-Phan, R., Volpi, E. and Usman, M. 2022. A correlational analysis of COVID-19 incidence and mortality and urban determinants of vitamin D status across the London boroughs. Scientific Reports. 12 (1) 11741. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15664-y

Jeremy J. Hoffman, Simon Arunga, Abeer H.A. Mohamed Ahmed, Victor Hu and Matthew Burton 2022. Management of Filamentous Fungal Keratitis: A Pragmatic Approach. Journal of Fungi. 8 (10) 1067. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8101067

Yizhi Xu, Daniel Amund, Ricardo A. Wu and Tian Ding 2022. Response of Foodborne Pathogens to Acid Stress. in: Tian Ding, Xinyu Liao and Jinsong Feng (ed.) Stress Responses of Foodborne Pathogens Springer Nature.

Francis Robert Jose Sharps, Laura Jane Wilson, Catherine Anna‐Marie Graham, Christopher Curtis and Curtis, C. 2022. Prevalence of disordered eating, eating disorders and risk of low energy availability in professional, competitive and recreational female athletes based in the United Kingdom. European Journal of Sport Science. 22 (9), pp. 1445-1451. https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2021.1943712

R. A. Dervish, L. J. Wilson and C. Curtis 2022. Investigating the prevalence of low energy availability, disordered eating and eating disorders in competitive and recreational female endurance runners. European Journal of Sport Science. 23 (5), pp. 869-876. https://doi.org/10.1080/17461391.2022.2079423

T.J. Wood, L.J. Wilson and C. Curtis 2022. Quantifying frequency of use of methods of body mass loss in competing UK powerlifters. Performance Enhancement & Health. 10 (2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peh.2022.100221

C. Curtis, N. Arjomandkhah, C. Cooke, M. K. Ranchordas and M. Russell 2022. Season-Long Changes in the Body Composition Profiles of Competitive Female Rugby Union Players Assessed via Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. 93 (3), pp. 601-607. https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2021.1886226

Morad, H.O.J., Luqman, S., Garcia Pinto, L., Cunningham, K., Vilar, B., Clayton, G., Shankar-Hari, M. and McNaughton, P.A. 2022. Artemisinin inhibits neutrophil and macrophage chemotaxis, cytokine production and NET release. Scientific Reports. 2022 (12) 11078. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15214-6

Mattin, L.R. 2022. Succeeding In Science With Neurodiversity. The Endocrinologist. 145 (Autumn), p. 14.

Morad, H. 2022. Repurposing the antimalarial compound artemisinin as a novel therapy for inflammatory conditions. Drug Repurposing II. Woburn House, London, UK 10 - 11 May 2022 The Biochemical Society.

Arinzechukwu Ude, Kaiyven Afi-Leslie, Kelechi Okeke and Emmanuel Ogbodo 2022. Trypan Blue Exclusion Assay, Neutral Red, Acridine Orange and Propidium Iodide. in: Cytotoxicity: Understanding Cellular Damage and Response IntechOpen.

Arinzechukwu Ude, Emmanuel Ogbodo and Kelechi Okeke 2022. Stromal Cells and Extracellular Vesicles. in: Yusuf Tutar and Lütfi Tutar (ed.) Cancer Metastasis: Molecular Mechanism and Clinical Therapy IntechOpen.

Arinzechukwu Ude and Kelechi Okeke 2022. Leukaemia: The Purinergic System and Small Extracellular Vesicles. in: Margarete Dulce Bagatini (ed.) Purinergic System IntechOpen.

McCoull, D., Veall, E.L., Walsh, Y., Byrom, L., Avkiran, T., Large, J.M., Vaitone, E., Gaffey, F., Jerman, J., Mathie, A. and Wright, P.D. 2022. Aprepitant is a novel, selective activator of the K2P channel TRAAK. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 588, pp. 41-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.12.031

Cousin, M.A., Veale, E.L., Dsouza, N.R., Tripathi, S., Holden, R.G., Arelin, M., Beek, G., Bekheirnia, M.R., Beygo, J., Bhambhani, V., Bialer, M., Bigoni, S., Boelman, C., Klee, E.W. and Mathie, A. 2022. Gain and loss of TASK3 channel function and its regulation by novel variation cause KCNK9 imprinting syndrome. Genome Medicine. 14 62. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-022-01064-4

Veale, E.L., Golluscio, A., Grand, K., Graham, J.M. Jr and Mathie, A. 2022. A KCNB1 gain of function variant causes developmental delay and speech apraxia but not seizures. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 13 1093313. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphar.2022.1093313

Sandra Medrano-Garcia, Daniel Morales-Cano, Bianca Barreira, Alba Vera-Zambrano, Rahul Kumar, Djuro Kosanovic, Ralph Theo Schermuly, Brian B. Graham, Francisco Perez-Vizcaino, Alistair Mathie, Rajkumar Savai, Soni Pullamseti, Ghazwan Butrous, Edgar Fernández-Malavé and Angel Cogolludo 2022. HIV and Schistosoma Co-Exposure Leads to Exacerbated Pulmonary Endothelial Remodeling and Dysfunction Associated with Altered Cytokine Landscape. Cells. 11 (15) 2414. https://doi.org/10.3390/cells11152414

Marjola Thanaj, Johanna Mielke, Kathryn A. McGurk, Wenjia Bai, Nicolò Savioli, Antonio de Marvao, Hannah V. Meyer, Lingyao Zeng, Florian Sohler, R. Thomas Lumbers, Martin R. Wilkins, James S. Ware, Christian Bender, Daniel Rueckert, Aidan MacNamara, Daniel F. Freitag and Declan P. O’Regan 2022. Genetic and environmental determinants of diastolic heart function. Nature Cardiovascular Research. 1, pp. 361-371. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44161-022-00048-2

Zubaidah, E., Srianta, I and Tewfik, I. 2022. Chapter 12 - Fermented plant-based beverage: kombucha. in: Prakash, Sangeeta, Bhandari, Bhesh R. and Gaiani, Claire (ed.) Engineering Plant-Based Food Systems Elsevier. pp. 215-231

Khawandanah, J., Khawandanah, D., Tewfik, S. and Tewfik, I. 2022. Tailored Dietary Plan to Sustain Healthy Lifestyle of Adults with Restrained Mobility. Food Science & Nutrition Technology. 7 (2). https://doi.org/10.23880/fsnt-16000286

Iswanto, N., Srianta, I., Poernomo, L.N., Nugerahani, I., Kuswardhani, I., Ristiarini, S. and Tewfik, I. 2022. The effect of different concentration of banana ambon puree on the physicochemical, microbiological, and organoleptic properties of rice bran yogurt. International Food Conference 2021. Online 03 Nov 2021 E3S Web of Conferences. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202234403001