Sarcopenia, a newly recognized geriatric syndrome, is characterized by age-related decline
of skeletal muscle plus low muscle strength and/or physical performance. Previous studies …

The hepatitis B virus (HBV), discovered in 1966, infects more than 350 million people
worldwide. Hepatitis B is a leading cause of chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular …

Drug-induced hepatic injury accounts for more than 50 percent of cases of acute liver failure
in the United States. More than 75 percent of idiosyncratic drug reactions result in liver …

Clinical and research interest in sarcopenia has burgeoned internationally, Asia included.
The Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (AWGS) 2014 consensus defined sarcopenia as “…

Objective. —To determine whether a program incorporating smoking intervention and use
of an inhaled bronchodilator can slow the rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 …

A specific assay has been developed for a blood-borne non-A, non-B hepatitis (NANBH)
virus in which a polypeptide synthesized in recombinant yeast clones of the hepatitis C virus (…

We report the application of single-molecule-based sequencing technology for high-throughput
profiling of histone modifications in mammalian cells. By obtaining over four billion bases …

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common type of thyroid cancer. Here, we
describe the genomic landscape of 496 PTCs. We observed a low frequency of somatic …

Today’s wireless networks are characterized by a fixed spectrum assignment policy. However,
a large portion of the assigned spectrum is used sporadically and geographical variations …

Bringing together leaf trait data spanning 2,548 species and 175 sites we describe, for the
first time at global scale, a universal spectrum of leaf economics consisting of key chemical, …