The world has witnessed a steady rise in both non-infectious and infectious chronic
diseases, prompting a cross-disciplinary approach to understand and treating disease …

Studies of the human microbiome share both technical and conceptual similarities with
genome-wide association studies and genetic epidemiology. However, the microbiome has …

In some patients, the inflammatory‐immune response to surgical injury progresses to a
harmful, dysregulated state. We posit that postoperative systemic inflammatory dysregulation …

Single-cell proteomics (SCP) has emerged as a powerful tool for detecting cellular
heterogeneity, offering unprecedented insights into biological mechanisms that are masked …

Adoption of high-content omic technologies in clinical studies, coupled with computational
methods, has yielded an abundance of candidate biomarkers. However, translating such …

We propose a method for supervised learning with multiple sets of features (“views”). The
multiview problem is especially important in biology and medicine, where “-omics” data …

Birth is a physiological act that is part of the morpho-functional economy of the maternal
body. Each stage in the act of birth has a predetermined pathway that is neurohormonally …

Parturition is a well-orchestrated process characterized by increased uterine contractility,
cervical ripening, and activation of the chorioamniotic membranes; yet, the transition from a …

The vaginal ecosystem is closely tied to human health and reproductive outcomes, yet its
dynamics in the wake of childbirth remain poorly characterized. Here, we profile the vaginal …

Preterm birth (PTB) is the leading cause of death in children under five, yet comprehensive
studies are hindered by its multiple complex etiologies. Epidemiological associations …