Protease inhibitors (PIs) were initially introduced in the mid-1990s and when used in combination with nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI), ushered in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). These agents dramatically altered the treatment of HIV infection, enabling suppression of viral replication to undetectable levels and significantly impacting disease progres...

In a 2016 survey of 704 National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences Directorate principal investigators (BIO PIs), nearly 90% indicated they are currently or will soon be analyzing large data sets. BIO PIs considered a range of computational needs important to their work—including high performance computing (HPC), bioinformatics support, multi-step workflows, updated analysis software...

Aortic dissection is a life-threatening condition and has one of the highest mortality rates of cardiovascular diseases. It remains a devastating disease; with multiple unanswered questions concerning treatment modalities. The role of thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in these patients; especially those with uncomplicated acute aortic Type B dissections (AAD-B) is especially controver...

The HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs) are widely used in combination antiretroviral therapy for the management of HIV-1 infection. Certain characteristics of the PIs, in particular their metabolism being mainly via the cytochrome P450 isoenzyme group and their gastric absorption being pH dependent, make them prone to clinically significant drug interactions with other antiretrovirals, concomitant...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a common infectious disease. Here we perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) among Chinese populations to identify novel genetic loci involved in persistent HBV infection. GWAS scan is performed in 1,251 persistently HBV infected subjects (PIs, cases) and 1,057 spontaneously recovered subjects (SRs, controls), followed by replications in four independ...

The rhodopsin regulatory protein, visual arrestin, undergoes light-dependent trafficking in mammalian and Drosophila photoreceptor cells, though the mechanisms underlying these movements are poorly understood. In Drosophila, the movement of the visual arrestin, Arr2, functions in long-term adaptation and is dependent on interaction with phosphoinositides (PIs). However, the basis for the requir...

Correspondence to: Robert J. Mentz, MD, Duke Clinical Research Institute, P.O. Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715. E-mail [email protected] Robert J. Mentz, MD Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH The success or failure of multicenter clinical trials will remain dependent in large part on the engagement of the site principal investigator (PI). Site PIs play an important role in trial selection, site activati...

Knowledge workers organize in their personal information space (PIS) the documents they use for their daily tasks. In an organizational context, people’s PIS constitute an in-house value-added capital. Paradoxically, this information source is poorly exploited, as people tend to use external sources such as the web, although seeming less appropriate. To overcome this issue, we define an interfa...