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Isolation insights and microbial adaptability: News from the College | |
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2020-11-13 | |
发布年 | 2020 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | ![]() ![]() Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial. From insights into social isolation during lockdown, to deeper understanding of microbial adaptability, here is some quick-read news from across the College. Lockdown isolation insights
One in 10 older adults reported increased feelings of depression and/or anxiety due to social isolation during the first UK national lockdown, according to a survey from Imperial researchers. Drs Catherine Robb and Celeste de Jager-Loots and colleagues from the AGE Research Unit contacted more than 7000 men and women over 50 as part of the study and found that risk factors included being female, of younger age, living alone, poor sleep and experiencing loneliness. The team suggests that as in-person activities are limited by restrictions, the use of technologies, such as apps, may play an important role in reducing the risk of loneliness, anxiety and depression in older people. But lack of access could potentially exclude significant numbers of particularly vulnerable older people. Read the full paper, published in Frontiers in Psychology: Associations of Social Isolation with Anxiety and Depression During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Older Adults in London, UK Biomolecular insights
Now, researchers from Imperial have created a method that can extract more detail from these measurements. The software they created, available from Imperial.tech, can apply this method on standard, existing mass spectrometers, potentially allowing new discoveries to be made. For example, lead researcher Dr Marina Edelson-Averbukh from the Department of Physics invented the technique as a means to uncover new therapeutic targets for breast cancer. Read more in Physics Today and read the full paper in Physical Review X: “Two-Dimensional Partial-Covariance Mass Spectrometry of Large Molecules Based on Fragment Correlations” Adapting to a heating world
Read the full paper in PLOS Biology: “Adaptive evolution shapes the present-day distribution of the thermal sensitivity of population growth rate” – Want to be kept up to date on news at Imperial? Sign up for our free quick-read daily e-newsletter, Imperial Today. |
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