The avian vocal tract offers bioinspiration for the improvement of available vocal prosthetics, which do not currently capture the frequency of the patient’s natural voice. The avian vocal organ, the syrinx, is anatomically different from the human larynx, relying on vi...

Antibiotic-resistant microbes have become a serious health problem world-wide. Development of new antibiotics has been focused on killing pathogens. However, these antibiotics also kill other components of microbiome resulting in immune dysregulation. It is crucial to d...

Comparative effectiveness research (CER) has recently emerged as a key component of health care decision-making, specifically designed to provide evidence of the effectiveness of different health care treatments. The latter are becoming increasingly complex, and there i...

This proposal develops in the framework of applications of set theory to C*-algebras and it is organized into three main themes: (1) the set-theoretic study of the Calkin algebra, (2) Naimark's problem, (3) the Stone-Weierstrass problem for noncommutative C*-algebras. T...

SEPN1-related myopathy (SEPN1-RM) is a rare, untreatable debilitating congenital myopathy in which SEPN1 mutations impair the antioxidant system, ER stress protection and mitochondrial oxidative function. These altered cellular processes ultimately lead to a significant...