This study assessed whether combining the aminoglycoside gentamicin with caffeine enhances antimicrobial efficacy in a murine typhoid model. We infected murine peritoneal macrophages in vitro with Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium and treated them for 24 h with non-toxic concentrations of caffeine (0.05–5 µg/ml) plus gentamicin (10 µg/ml). Subsequently, Swiss mice were orally challenged with S. Typhimurium and received d...

The administration of biotherapeutics has the potential to induce potent immune responses, including the induction of anti-drug antibodies (ADA) (1). Detection and characterization of ADA in clinical trials is an important component of a comprehensive immunogenicity program (2). ADA testing is mostly accomplished with ligand-binding assays (LBA). While LBA can be robust and specific, they are susceptible to various sources of...

Substantial global restoration commitments are occurring alongside a rapid expansion in land‐hungry tropical commodities, including to supply increasing demand for wood products. Future commercial tree plantations may deliver high timber yields, shrinking the footprint of production forestry, but there is an as‐yet unquantified risk that plantations may expand into priority restoration areas, with marked environmental costs. F...

Characterization of clinical anti-drug antibody (ADA) responses to biotherapeutics can be important to understanding the consequences of immunogenicity. ADA are expected to be polyclonal, with composition and affinities that evolve over time. Measuring ADA binding affinity can be complicated by the polyclonal nature of response, residual drug in sample, and low ADA levels. We developed a novel workflow to determine the apparen...

The effects of climate change are difficult to predict for many marine species because little is known of their response to climate variations in the past. However, long‐term chronologies of growth, a variable that integrates multiple physical and biological factors, are now available for several marine taxa. These allow us to search for climate‐driven synchrony in growth across multiple taxa and ecosystems, identifying the ke...