Article Watch: April 2014

Cover vol. 11, no. 2, April 2014

STD Awareness Month — April 2014

Genomic resources notes accepted 1 April 2014 - 31 May 2014.

This article documents the public availability of a global transcriptome comparison between Lyme disease tick vectors, Ixodes scapularis and Ixodes ricinus.

NSIDRC Journal Article Alert – April 2007

• Work schedule during pregnancy and spontaneous abortion. • Genetic evaluation of stillbirth in United States holsteins using a sirematernal grandsire threshold model. • Combining internal and external validation data to correct for exposure misclassification: A case study. • Activation of 5-HT1A receptors in the paragigantocellularis lateralis decreases shivering during cooling in the conscio...

SPLASH! milk science update: April 2014 issue

• An antibody, SIgA, found in breast milk alters the kinds of bacteria that colonize the infant gut. • The SIgA antibody also appears to change “turn on” and “turn off” genes involved in the rapid growth of the intestines that is normal in early life, as well as genes specifically linked to intestinal bowel disease. • These findings suggest a potential new role for the antibody in treating bowe...