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The development of a food-group, tree classification method and its use in exploring dietary associations with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) and other health-related outcomes in a UK Population (2025)
Journal Article
Alawadi, A. A., Vijay, A., Grove, J. I., Taylor, M. A., & Aithal, G. P. (2025). The development of a food-group, tree classification method and its use in exploring dietary associations with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) and other health-related outcomes in a UK Population. Metabolism Open, 100351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metop.2025.100351

Background
Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) affects up to one in five people in the UK, with persistent overeating and a sedentary lifestyle being significant risk factors. Exploring dietary patterns at a food level i... Read More about The development of a food-group, tree classification method and its use in exploring dietary associations with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) and other health-related outcomes in a UK Population.

Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity (2025)
Journal Article
Sherif, M. A., Carter, W. G., & Mellor, I. R. (2025). Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity. Journal of Xenobiotics, 15(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/jox15010012

Chlorpyrifos (CPF) is a broad-spectrum organophosphate insecticide. Long-term exposure to low levels of CPF is associated with neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders. The mechanisms leading to these effects are still not fully understood... Read More about Chlorpyrifos Acts as a Positive Modulator and an Agonist of N-Methyl-d-Aspartate (NMDA) Receptors: A Novel Mechanism of Chlorpyrifos-Induced Neurotoxicity.

In vivo calcium imaging reveals directional sensitivity of C-low threshold mechanoreceptors (2025)
Journal Article
Semizoglou, E., Lo Re, L., Middleton, S. J., Perez‐Sanchez, J., Tufarelli, T., Bennett, D. L., & Chisholm, K. I. (2025). In vivo calcium imaging reveals directional sensitivity of C-low threshold mechanoreceptors. Journal of Physiology, https://doi.org/10.1113/jp286631

C-low threshold mechanoreceptors (C-LTMRs) in animals (termed C-tactile (CT) fibres in humans) are a subgroup of C-fibre primary afferents, which innervate hairy skin and respond to low-threshold punctate indentations and brush stimuli. These afferen... Read More about In vivo calcium imaging reveals directional sensitivity of C-low threshold mechanoreceptors.

Enhancing nanopore adaptive sampling for PromethION using readfish at scale (2025)
Journal Article
Munro, R., Payne, A., Holmes, N., Moore, C., Cahyani, I., & Loose, M. (in press). Enhancing nanopore adaptive sampling for PromethION using readfish at scale. Genome Research, https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.279329.124

A unique feature of Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencers, adaptive sampling, allows precise DNA molecule selection from sequencing libraries. Here we present enhancements to our tool, readfish, enabling all features for the industrial scale Promet... Read More about Enhancing nanopore adaptive sampling for PromethION using readfish at scale.

Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception (2025)
Journal Article
McGing, J. J., Serres, S., Nicholas, R., Gupta, A., Radford, S. J., Nixon, A. V., Mallinson, J., Bradley, C., Bawden, S., Francis, S. T., Greenhaff, P. L., & Moran, G. W. (in press). Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception. Journal of Crohn's and Colitis, Article jjae194. https://doi.org/10.1093/ecco-jcc/

Background & Objective

IBD fatigue aetiology is poorly understood. This study quantified body composition and physical function alongside proton magnetic resonance imaging (1H MRI) and spectroscopy (31P MRS) measures of organ structure and functio... Read More about Deconditioning in quiescent Crohn’s Disease patients with heightened fatigue perception.

Five year mortality in an RCT of a lung cancer biomarker to select people for low dose CT screening (2025)
Journal Article
Sullivan, F. M., Mair, F. S., Anderson, W., Chew, C., Dorward, A., Haughney, J., Hogarth, F., Kendrick, D., Littleford, R., McConnachie, A., McCowan, C., McMeekin, N., Patel, M., Rauchhaus, P., Daly, F., Ritchie, L., Robertson, J., Sarvesvaran, J., Sewell, H., Taylor, T., …Schembri, S. (2025). Five year mortality in an RCT of a lung cancer biomarker to select people for low dose CT screening. PLoS ONE, 20(1), Article e0306163. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306163

The role of biomarkers in risk-based early detection of lung cancer may enable screening to become cost effective and widely accessible. EarlyCDT-Lung is an example of such a blood-based autoantibody biomarker which may improve accessibility to Low d... Read More about Five year mortality in an RCT of a lung cancer biomarker to select people for low dose CT screening.

Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yong, L. X., Zhou, Z., Vallières, C., He, Y., Cuzzucoli Crucitti, V., Alexander, M. R., Avery, S., Wildman, R., & Irvine, D. (2024, August). Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening. Presented at International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Singapore, Singapore

The fungal pathogen Candida albicans (C. albicans) is particularly problematic for immunocompromised patients and those with medical implants. Introducing Candida-resistant medical devices could potentially reduce mortality rates from such infections... Read More about Development of C. albican Anti-attachment Inkjet 3D Printing Ink, via High Throughput Screening.

Molecular xenomonitoring of Schistosoma mansoni infections in Biomphalaria choanomphala at Lake Victoria, East Africa: Assessing roles of abiotic and biotic factors (2025)
Journal Article
Andrus, P. S., Standley, C. J., Stothard, J. R., & Wade, C. M. (2025). Molecular xenomonitoring of Schistosoma mansoni infections in Biomphalaria choanomphala at Lake Victoria, East Africa: Assessing roles of abiotic and biotic factors. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 19(1), Article e0012771. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0012771

Lake Victoria is a well-known hot spot for intestinal schistosomiasis, caused by infection with the trematode Schistosoma mansoni. The snail intermediate hosts of this parasite are Biomphalaria snails, with Biomphalaria choanomphala being the predomi... Read More about Molecular xenomonitoring of Schistosoma mansoni infections in Biomphalaria choanomphala at Lake Victoria, East Africa: Assessing roles of abiotic and biotic factors.

Quorum sensing signals of the grapevine crown gall bacterium, Novosphingobium sp. Rr2-17: use of inducible expression and polymeric resin to sequester acyl-homoserine lactones (2024)
Journal Article
Gan, H. M., Dailey, L., Wengert, P., Halliday, N., Williams, P., Hudson, A., & Savka, M. A. (2024). Quorum sensing signals of the grapevine crown gall bacterium, Novosphingobium sp. Rr2-17: use of inducible expression and polymeric resin to sequester acyl-homoserine lactones. PeerJ, 12, Article e18657. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18657

Background: A grapevine crown gall tumor strain, Novosphingobium sp. strain Rr2- 17 was previously reported to accumulate copious amounts of diverse quorum sensing signals during growth. Genome sequencing identified a single luxI homolog in strain Rr... Read More about Quorum sensing signals of the grapevine crown gall bacterium, Novosphingobium sp. Rr2-17: use of inducible expression and polymeric resin to sequester acyl-homoserine lactones.

Yttrium-Enriched Phosphate Glass-Ceramic Microspheres for Bone Cancer Radiotherapy Treatment (2024)
Journal Article
Milborne, B., Arjuna, A., Islam, T., Arafat, A., Layfield, R., Thompson, A., & Ahmed, I. (2024). Yttrium-Enriched Phosphate Glass-Ceramic Microspheres for Bone Cancer Radiotherapy Treatment. ACS Omega, 9(52), 50933-50944. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.4c02825

This study presents the development and characterisation of high yttrium-content phosphate-based glass-ceramic microspheres for potential applications in bone cancer radiotherapy treatment. The microspheres produced via flame spheroidisa-tion, follow... Read More about Yttrium-Enriched Phosphate Glass-Ceramic Microspheres for Bone Cancer Radiotherapy Treatment.