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    Impact of presentation at conference with timed release of academic publication

    Fast-tracking publication of original research to coincide with a conference presentation (“coordinated publication”) is a mechanism of rapidly disseminating new data. How often this occurs, whether its freque...

    Emily Hughes, Ashley Raudanskis, Afsaneh Raissi in Internal and Emergency Medicine (2023)

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    Recurrent repeat expansions in human cancer genomes

    Expansion of a single repetitive DNA sequence, termed a tandem repeat (TR), is known to cause more than 50 diseases1,2. However, repeat expansions are often not explored beyond neurological and neurodegenerative ...

    Graham S. Erwin, Gamze Gürsoy, Rashid Al-Abri, Ashwini Suriyaprakash in Nature (2023)

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    Highly efficacious and safe neutralizing DNA aptamer of SARS-CoV-2 as an emerging therapy for COVID-19 disease

    The paucity of SARS-CoV-2-specific virulence factors has greatly hampered the therapeutic management of patients with COVID-19 disease. Although available vaccines and approved therapies have shown tremendous ...

    Mohamad Ammar Ayass, Trivendra Tripathi, Natalya Griko, Victor Pashkov in Virology Journal (2022)

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    Language models can learn complex molecular distributions

    Deep generative models of molecules have grown immensely in popularity, trained on relevant datasets, these models are used to search through chemical space. The downstream utility of generative models for the...

    Daniel Flam-Shepherd, Kevin Zhu, Alán Aspuru-Guzik in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Deep transcriptome sequencing of subgenual anterior cingulate cortex reveals cross-diagnostic and diagnosis-specific RNA expression changes in major psychiatric disorders

    Despite strong evidence of heritability and growing discovery of genetic markers for major mental illness, little is known about how gene expression in the brain differs across psychiatric diagnoses, or how kn...

    Nirmala Akula, Stefano Marenco, Kory Johnson, Ning** Feng in Neuropsychopharmacology (2021)

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    Polygenic risk for anxiety influences anxiety comorbidity and suicidal behavior in bipolar disorder

    Bipolar disorder is often comorbid with anxiety, which is itself associated with poorer clinical outcomes, including suicide. A better etiologic understanding of this comorbidity could inform diagnosis and tre...

    Fabiana L. Lopes, Kevin Zhu, Kirstin L. Purves in Translational Psychiatry (2020)

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    Pharmacological Profiling of Purified Human Stem Cell-Derived and Primary Mouse Motor Neurons

    Directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) has enabled the generation of specific neuronal subtypes that approximate the intended primary mammalian cells on both the RNA and protein level...

    Daniel Moakley, Joan Koh, Joao D. Pereira, Daniel M. DuBreuil in Scientific Reports (2019)

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    De-implementation of low value castration for men with prostate cancer: protocol for a theory-based, mixed methods approach to minimizing low value androgen deprivation therapy (DeADT)

    Men with prostate cancer are often castrated with long-acting injectable drugs termed androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Although many benefit, ADT is also used in patients with little or nothing to gain. The...

    Ted A. Skolarus, Sarah T. Hawley, Daniela A. Wittmann in Implementation Science (2018)

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    The Ketone Body β-Hydroxybutyrate Does Not Inhibit Synuclein Mediated Inflammasome Activation in Microglia

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is recognized as the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder and results in debilitating motor deficits. The accumulation and spread of neurotoxic synuclein aggregates in the f...

    Vandana Deora, Eduardo A. Albornoz, Kevin Zhu in Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology (2017)

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    Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes: comparative genomics and network perspectives

    Defective tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) and hyperactive oncogenes (OCGs) heavily contribute to cell proliferation and apoptosis during cancer development through genetic variations such as somatic mutations an...

    Kevin Zhu, Qi Liu, Yubo Zhou, Cui Tao, Zhongming Zhao, **gchun Sun, Hua Xu in BMC Genomics (2015)

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    A comparative study of disease genes and drug targets in the human protein interactome

    Disease genes cause or contribute genetically to the development of the most complex diseases. Drugs are the major approaches to treat the complex disease through interacting with their targets. Thus, drug tar...

    **gchun Sun, Kevin Zhu, W Jim Zheng, Hua Xu in BMC Bioinformatics (2015)

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    Innovation diffusion in global contexts: determinants of post-adoption digital transformation of European companies

    Grounded in the diffusion of innovation theory and the technology–organization–environment framework, we develop an integrative model to study the determinants of post-adoption stages of innovation diffusion, ...

    Kevin Zhu, Shutao Dong, Sean **n Xu in European Journal of Information Systems (2006)

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    Electronic business adoption by European firms: a cross-country assessment of the facilitators and inhibitors

    In this study, we developed a conceptual model for studying the adoption of electronic business (e-business or EB) at the firm level, incorporating six adoption facilitators and inhibitors, based on the techno...

    Kevin Zhu, Kenneth Kraemer, Sean Xu in European Journal of Information Systems (2003)

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    Strategic exercise of real options: Investment decisions in technological systems

    Viewing investment projects in new technologies as real options, this paper studies the effects of endogenous competition and asymmetric information on the strategic exercise of real options. We first develop ...

    Kevin Zhu, John Weyant in Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering (2003)