Dementia affects over 55 million people worldwide, with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) comprising most cases. Because curative therapies remain unavailable, there is an urgent need for prevention strategies that target modifiable risk factors. Behavioral interventions—particularly sleep improvement and physical activity—can independently benefit cognition, brain function, and cardiometabolic health, yet their combined (potentially s...

Purpose of Review In this review, we synthesise current knowledge on trade-offs among traits in key fitness dimensions and identify major research gaps with the intention of laying the groundwork for a rapid advance in tree breeding for multiple objectives as a key contribution to the sustainability of planted forests in the future. Recent Findings Trade-offs among growth, reproduction, defence, stress tolerance and product qu...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) allow identifying genomic regions related to traits of economic importance in animals of zootechnical interest. The objective of this research was to conduct a genome-wide association study on meat quality traits using the Illumina OvineSNPs50 BeadChip array. The animals were sampled in the departments of Córdoba, Cesar, and Valle del Cauca. The genotypes obtained with the Illumina OvineS...

Purpose This study aims to develop and evaluate a cost-effective, user-friendly multiplex quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) method for detecting multiple tick-borne pathogens associated with human and veterinary diseases. Methods In silico PCR was performed to design and evaluate primer sequences reported for amplifying Rickettsia spp ., Borrelia spp. , and Ehrlichia spp. Single and multiplex qPCR assays...