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Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences is an international science journal published bi-monthly as themed special issues in many areas of science, though predominantly the biological sciences. Each of twenty-four annual issues presents Original Research Articles and/or commissioned Review, Commentary, and Perspective Articles. Ann NY Acad Sci is a hybrid journal available in over 80 countries, is rigorously peer-reviewed, and is ranked among the top multidisciplinary journals worldwide.

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Precision medicine, agriculture, and genome editing: science and ethics


This paper describes the talks presented in 2018 at the “Precision Medicine and Genome Editing: Science and Ethics” workshop held at the Third International Conference on One Medicine One Science (iCOMOS). The talks highlighted the novel, interdisciplinary approaches through which advanced genome‐editing techniques are affecting biomedical research in human genetic disorders, infectious disease, environmental science, agriculture, pharmacogenomics, and bioethics.

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Setting research priorities on multiple micronutrient supplementation in pregnancy

 

The specific aim of this research prioritization exercise was to inform the direction of research and investments needed to support the implementation of multiple micronutrient supplementation (MMS) interventions for pregnant women in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMIC) using the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initiative methodology. This exercise prioritized 35 discrete research questions that merit serious consideration for the potential of MMS during pregnancy to be optimized in LMIC.

The importance of diversity in cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience has been, and continues to be, used to inform education policy and clinical practice. In our review, we will discuss recent research, published within the last 5 years, suggesting that one's race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex contribute to individual differences in neural structure, function, and related cognitive performance across a variety of domains, including episodic memory, attention, and emotion. We argue that greater diversity in cognitive neuroscience research is needed to improve reproducibility and to serve the treatment needs of a diverse population.

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Ovarian hormones: a long overlooked but critical contributor to cognitive brain structures and function

This review summarizes historical trends that have led to a knowledge gap in the role of ovarian hormones in neuroscience, synthesizes recent findings on ovarian hormone contributions to cognitive brain structures and function, and highlights areas ripe for future work.

Induction of developmental hematopoiesis mediated by transcription factors and the hematopoietic microenvironment

In this review, we aim to summarize the transcription factors (TFs) that play important roles in developmental hematopoiesis primarily and to also touch on adult hematopoiesis. Several aspects of cellular and molecular biology coalesce in this process, with TFs and surrounding cellular signals playing a major role in the overall development of the hematopoietic lineage. We attempt to put these elements into the context of reprogramming and highlight their roles.

Hydrogel screening approaches for bone and cartilage tissue regeneration

The goals of this review are to: (1) provide an overview of bone and cartilage extracellular matrix (ECM), (2) summarize biophysical and biochemical ECM signals that influence osteogenic and chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and (3) highlight high‐throughput hydrogel‐based screening techniques that can be applied to design biomaterials suitable for robust bone and cartilage formation.

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On the front cover: The cover image, submitted by Mahata and Corti, is from the review article “Chromogranin A and its fragments in cardiovascular, immunometabolic, and cancer regulation,” https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14249.
On the back cover: The cover image, submitted by Geenen et al., is from the review article “The presentation of neuroendocrine self-peptides in the thymus: an essential event for individual life and vertebrate survival,” https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14089.
On the front cover: The cover image was submitted by Powley et al., “Vagal innervation of the stomach reassessed: brain-gut connectome uses smart terminals,” https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14138.
On the back cover: From Zhongqiang Li et al., “Indocyanine green-assisted dental imaging in the first and second near-infrared windows as compared with X-ray imaging.” https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14086.
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