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Dec 8, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Michael Patterson |David Nemetz
Modern media is eroding our ability to think straight. Last Christmas my daughters gifted me with the Storyworth app, which sends me weekly prods to write about different aspects of my life. Recording stories of my life for my kids and grandkids is a great idea and I am happy to do it. This week’s question is a difficult one and gave me pause: “How has the country changed during your lifetime?” There are so many ways I could try to answer that question.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
biorxiv.org | Robert Miller |Michael Patterson |Neti Bhatt |Xiaokun Pei
AbstractDiscovered nearly 70 years ago, the allosteric regulation of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase (ATCase) is discussed in every biochemistry textbook. ATCase catalyzes the first step in pyrimidine biosynthesis. Despite extensive research, the mechanism by which this enzyme is regulated by pyrimidine and purine nucleotides has remained elusive. Here, we present a detailed analysis of E.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
sudouest.fr | Michael Patterson
Nous devrions tous installer des pièges pour attraper les reines du frelon asiatique. Il ne faut pas attendre le printemps prochain, sous peine de ne capturer probablement que les ouvrières. En seulement deux jours, les 7 et 8 novembre, dans mon jardin près du Bugue, environ 76 frelons asiatiques, et quelques autres, ont été piégés.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
spcare.bmj.com | Alison Bravington |Michael Patterson |Jason W. Boland |Michael Lind
AbstractBackground Malignant bowel obstruction is often inoperable, and can precipitate a transition from hospital to hospice care. The condition brings a high symptom burden for patients (severe pain, nausea and intractable vomiting) and an inability to eat and drink. Cochrane systematic reviews report significant ongoing uncertainties regarding its management (Feuer, Broadley. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2000; Issue 1. Art. No.: CD001219; Sowerbutts, Lal, Sremanakova, et al.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Michael Patterson |David Nemetz
In the Spring of 1970, I was cast as Prospero in an Antioch College production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It is preposterous that a 23-year-old could do justice to the role of a powerful elderly magician, but I was excited about the opportunity. Shakespeare’s poetry is magnificent and I was particularly drawn to the idea that Shakespeare, through Prospero, was bidding farewell to the magic of the theater and relinquishing his power and influence as a poet.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Michael Patterson |David Nemetz
In the Spring of 1970, I was cast as Prospero in an Antioch College production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It is preposterous that a 23-year-old could do justice to the role of a powerful elderly magician, but I was excited about the opportunity. Shakespeare’s poetry is magnificent and I was particularly drawn to the idea that Shakespeare, through Prospero, was bidding farewell to the magic of the theater and relinquishing his power and influence as a poet.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
erj.ersjournals.com | Michael Patterson |Kurt W. Prins
FootnotesConflict of interest: K.W. Prins received grant funding from Bayer. M.T. Patterson has no potential conflicts of interest to disclose. Support statement: This work was supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (grants HL158795 and HL162927). Funding information for this article has been deposited with the Crossref Funder Registry. Received June 13, 2024. Accepted June 20, 2024.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
insight.jci.org | JCI Insight |Yingzheng Xu |Michael Patterson |Bastien Dolfi
ResearchEndocrinologyImmunologyOpen Access | 10.1172/jci.insight.174746 JCI Insight. https://doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.174746. Copyright © 2024, Xu et al. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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May 28, 2024 | 
3rdactmagazine.com | Michael Patterson |Victoria Starr Marshall
To flourish, dance to the music of your aging process. The dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp wrote a lovely book about aging called Keep It Moving. She makes the point that, too often, the aging process involves a gradual contraction of our physical and mental presence. She encourages us to take inspiration from dancers and to keep moving. To move is to be alive, to engage. Our engagement with life should be expansive; we should expand into our maturity with a dancer’s enthusiasm and creativity.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
nature.com | Alex F. Bullock |Michael Patterson
AbstractOlder adults with cancer are a growing population requiring tailored care to achieve optimum treatment outcomes. Their care is complicated by under-recognised and under-treated wasting disorders: malnutrition, sarcopenia, and cachexia. We aimed to investigate the prevalence, overlap, and patients’ views and experiences of malnutrition, sarcopenia, and cachexia, in older adults with cancer. Mixed-methods study with cross-sectional study and qualitative interviews.
