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We review the work that has been conducted in the past years to understand when and why significant epidemics may arise even though a disease is not bound to become endemic in the long run i.e. subthreshold outbreaks. In particular, we describe the methods ...

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Growing evidence indicates that transposable elements (TEs) play important roles in evolution by providing genomes with coding and non-coding sequences. Identification of TE-derived functional elements, however, has relied on TE annotations in individual s ...

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In a context of escalating public health challenges, including the rise of chronic diseases, the impact of climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic, certain populations bear a disproportionate burden. As a result, there is an urgent need to develop public ...

Infectious agents contribute significantly to the global burden of diseases through both acute infection and their chronic sequelae. We leveraged the UK Biobank to identify genetic loci that influence humoral immune response to multiple infections. From 45 ...

We focus on distinctive data-driven measures of the fate of ongoing epidemics. The relevance of our pursuit is suggested by recent results proving that the short-term temporal evolution of infection spread is described by an epidemicity index related to th ...

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Evolving Infectious Disease Dynamics Shape School-based Intervention Effectiveness

Epidemicity conditions in spatial models of infectious diseases

Landscape and environmental heterogeneity support coexistence in competitive metacommunities

From roots to canopy: Unraveling the influence of species diversity on tree water relations under warmer and drier climates

Microfluidic systems for infectious disease diagnostics

Tree diversity reduces variability in sapling survival under drought

Infectious disease spread in connected communities

Organ-specific biotransformation in salmonids: Insight into intrinsic enzyme activity and biotransformation of three micropollutants

Invasive palms have more efficient and prolonged CO2 assimilation compared to native sub-Mediterranean vegetation

Inactivation of influenza A virus in expiratory droplets and aerosol particles and the associated physicochemical drivers

On the selection and effectiveness of pseudo-absences for species distribution modeling with deep learning

Multi-temporal forest monitoring in the Swiss Alps with knowledge-guided deep learning

At what spatial scale does natural selection operate? Using multiscale frameworks to calibrate the effects of environmental factors across landscape continuums

Ancestral genome reconstruction enhances transposable element annotation by identifying degenerate integrants

Stability of influenza A virus in droplets and aerosols is heightened by the presence of commensal respiratory bacteria

The role of spatial epidemiology to support public health policies : case studies applied to health promotion, noncommunicable and infectious diseases in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

A common NFKB1 variant detected through antibody analysis in UK Biobank predicts risk of infection and allergy

Epidemicity indices and reproduction numbers from infectious disease data in connected human populations

Fish Diversity in Relation to Littoral Habitats in Three Basins of Lake Kivu (East Africa)

Social media and deep learning reveal specific cultural preferences for biodiversity