«It is very important for fire departments to understand causes and cost of injury in order to ensure their limited budget is being properly distributed,» said Shannon Widman, project manager at FIRST and lead author on the study published in Injury Prevention. (sciencedaily.com)
Professor Nicole Soranzo, senior author on both studies from the Sanger Institute and University of Cambridge, added: «The BLUEPRINT project has provided the worldwide research community with detailed insights and understandings that will form the basis of important blood cell research for many years to come. (sciencedaily.com)
«What we've shown in the monkey model matches a lot of what people have observed in epidemiological studies of humans,» says Emma Mohr, a pediatric infectious disease fellow at UW — Madison and first author on the study with Matthew Aliota and Dawn Dudley, research scientists in UW — Madison's schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health, respectively. (news.wisc.edu)