Automatic airborne pollen monitoring offers potential to enable real-time, sustainable environmental health information to assist with management of allergic respiratory disease. Automatic systems, however, have not been widely deployed in the Southern Hemisphere, where there is considerable biodiversity. An automatic holography-based device combined with a classification algorithm was trialled in Australia for 15 months over...

Grass pollen is the major outdoor allergen source, inducing allergic rhinitis in susceptible people. In Australia, the considerable prevalence of allergic rhinitis (23.8%) and asthma (11%) is creating a major health and economic burden. Subtropical grass species exhibit distinct ecological and phylogenetic differences compared with temperate grasses, including variations in pollen allergen composition and immune response. Trad...

Introduction Understanding how coastal communities perceive environmental change is critical for designing effective and locally supported marine management strategies. This study examined perceptions of environmental changes over the past 10 years and expectations for the next 10 years among coastal residents of the Cù Lao Chàm–Hội An Biosphere Reserve in central Vietnam. Methods Face-to-face surveys were conducted with 252 a...

Rationale Sex differences in the effects of cannabis have been demonstrated in animals, though the human evidence is more equivocal. In particular, more work is needed to better understand interactions between sex and dose in determining acute pharmacological effects of cannabis, especially at higher potencies of Δ 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Objectives Sex differences were examined following a range of potencies of smoked...

An unprecedented marine heatwave in 2023 caused widespread coral bleaching and mortality throughout the Caribbean. In the Florida Keys (USA), 2 foundation species, elkhorn coral ( Acropora palmata ) and staghorn coral ( Acropora cervicornis ), were severely affected. These species have been the primary focus of reef restoration in Florida for decades. Substantial losses of these species occurred in outplanted populations, in o...

The search for the underlying genetic contributions to complex traits and diseases relies on accurate genetic data from populations of interest. Outbred populations, like the Diversity Outbred (DO), are commonly genotyped using commercial SNP arrays, such as the Giga Mouse Universal Genotyping Array (GigaMUGA). However, array genotypes are expensive to collect, subject to significant ascertainment bias, and too sparse to captu...