Context: There are more than 400,000 people living in just over 17,000 care homes in the UK.Nevertheless, the quantity of care home research taking place in these settings is limited.This has led to a knowledge Wide Fireplace Insert gap that impacts on care home practices, resident health outcomes, and the development of policy.Objectives: The obje

Recently, the putative association between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) exposure during pregnancy and the development of social disorders in children has gained increased attention.However, clinical studies struggle with the confounding effects of maternal depression typically co-occurring with antidepressant treatment.Furthermore,

IntroductionSustainable agricultural practices for controlling crop pests are urgently needed to reduce the reliance on chemical pesticides, which have long-term detrimental effects on ecosystems.In this study, we assessed the effectiveness of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and vermicompost (Vc) supplementation, alone and in combination, in mit

BackgroundLeptospirosis, caused by pathogenic Leptospira, is a zoonosis of global distribution.This infectious disease is mainly transmitted by indirect exposure to urine of asymptomatic animals via the environment.As human cases generally occur after heavy rain, an emerging hypothesis suggests that rainfall re-suspend leptospires together with soi

Bacteria possess the ability to evolve varied and ingenious strategies to outwit the host immune system, instigating an evolutionary arms race.Proteases are amongst the many weapons employed by bacteria, which specifically cleave and neutralize key signalling molecules required for a coordinated immune response.In this article, we focus on a family