Andrew Koenig

Oct 23, 2024 | nature.com | Junedh Amrute |Tracy M. Yamawaki |Sikander Hayat |Andrea Bredemeyer |In-Hyuk Jung |Andrew Koenig | +9 more

AbstractInflammation and tissue fibrosis co-exist and are causally linked to organ dysfunction1,2. However, the molecular mechanisms driving immune–fibroblast cell communication in human cardiac disease remain unexplored and there are at present no approved treatments that directly target cardiac fibrosis3,4. Here we performed multiomic single-cell gene expression, epitope mapping and chromatin accessibility profiling in 45 healthy donor, acutely infarcted and chronically failing human hearts.

Aug 27, 2024 | ehsdailyadvisor.blr.com | Andrew Koenig

The construction industry in New York is faced with a serious labor shortage right now. Employers, in seeking to hire workers needed to complete contracts, may be forced to hire people with inadequate training or experience. This can lead to more on-the-job injuries, which can result in more lawsuits.

Feb 29, 2024 | harvardreview.org | Diane Mehta |Andrew Koenig

by Diane Mehtareviewed by Rhony Bhopla“What is love?” This age-old question is the main query of Diane Mehta’s Tiny Extravaganzas. In these eloquent poems, Mehta responds to this question, and to artworks, with a tempered euphoria. The final quatrain from “Pot-pourri À Vaisseau, From Sèvres,” for instance, reads more like the beginning of a poem than the ending:Art is love modeled in experiencefired at higher temperatures than experience.

Jul 27, 2023 | harvardreview.org | Lorrie Moore |Andrew Koenig

Like a Möbius strip or an Escher drawing, Lorrie Moore’s fiction has long zigged and zagged and bent the world to its own gravity, forging a reality beyond the realism so dominant in the American literary landscape. “Real Estate,” from her collection Birds of America, opens with three pages of “HAHAHA,” a woman’s reaction to her husband’s infidelities—is she literally laughing her head off?

May 30, 2023 | harvardreview.org | Leila Aboulela |Andrew Koenig

The Sudanese-Egyptian author Leila Aboulela’s new novel, River Spirit, is an immersive experience. It’s 1881 in Sudan, and quickly you, the reader, are transported to the Nuba Mountains. Despite the political chaos, you become comfortable in the environment, silently observing, agreeing or disagreeing with each event and action as it unfolds. So many new people populate your world—even if they don’t know you, Aboulela’s mastery of detail gives you an affinity for each character.