It is well known that publications with collaborators from external institutions increase citations. This effect scales with spatial distance. There are also many barriers to long-distance collaborations, including linguistic differences, funding constraints, and the incremental costs of remote collaboration. This paper uses the Gulf of Mexico as a case study to examine long-distance research collaboration because it consists...

Drug tolerance (DT) is a critical attribute of anti-drug antibody (ADA) assays for assessing clinical immunogenicity. We present a unique situation where a previously approved commercial product, atezolizumab, required re-assessment of the assay DT to meet an increased drug exposure demand arising from a new route of administration (subcutaneous) and align with updated health authority (HA) regulations. Rather than redevelop t...

Background Host DNA depletion is a critical tool for accessing the microbiomes of samples that have a small amount of microbial DNA contained in a high host background. Of critical practical importance is the ability to identify microbial DNA sequences in frozen tissue specimens. Here, we compare four existing commercial methods and two newly introduced methods involving chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) on frozen human and...

As global temperatures rise, concerns about shifting mosquito ranges—and accompanying changes in the transmission of malaria, dengue, and other diseases—are mounting. However, systematic evidence for climate‐driven changes in mosquito ranges remains limited. We conducted a scoping review following PRISMA ‐ ScR guidelines of studies documenting expansions or contractions in medically important mosquito species. In total, 178 st...

Sensitive and efficient monitoring of species’ distributions is crucial for understanding biodiversity and conserving species. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding enables rapid detection of biological communities and its use is increasing in freshwater ecosystems. However, variations in eDNA sampling method may influence results. We compared anuran species richness estimates derived from two eDNA filtration strategies: (i)...