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By: Richard D. Cummings Until a few years ago it was believed that mitochondria do not contain glycoproteins. However, mitochondria contain a variant form of the enzyme UDP-GlcNAc: polypeptide O-β-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (OGT) that adds O-GlcNAc to Ser/Thr residues of proteins in...

Many decisions that general clinicians need to make daily are based on a risk assessment of different clinical (medical or surgical) interventions relative to the risk of non-intervention. We have a program for developing imaging protocols to better assess risk for patients in several clinical...

We are joined by the paper's senior author Dr. Christopher Tignanelli, an acute care surgeon and associate professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota, Co-Director of the Clinical Quality, Outcomes, Discovery and Evaluation Core, and Associate Dean for Data Science. We discuss challenges and...

In this publication, we show that an 18G needle splenic biopsy is as safe as a splenic biopsy with smaller needles. So, even if it is daunting, you can still biopsy the spleen. Multi-institutional collaboration is the key to obtaining meaningful data. Thank you to the Society of Abdominal Radiology...

Deadline: March 13, 2020 Please see the recently published Request for Applications (RFA) on Methods and Measurement in Research with Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Populations (RFA-MD-20-005). The purpose of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support research projects to advance...

Deadline: January 24, 2020 A friendly reminder that the deadline to submit comments for the RFI on the Development of the FY 2021-2025 Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for SGM Health Research is January 24, 2020 . Please continue to share the announcement below to your colleagues and networks! We welcome...

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Deadline: February 15, 2020 NIH Publishes RFI on InclusionAcross the Lifespan Workshop II The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently published a request for information (RFI), NOT-OD-20-044, to solicit input concerning a planned follow-up NIH workshop on implementation of the new Inclusion...

Deadline: February 28, 2020 Help teach the teachers what you know! We are looking for volunteers to teach best practices and new ideas for integrating sexual and gender minority health (inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) identities) across the...

Deadline: July 10, 2020 MSPA is assembling our first-ever LGBTQ+ Equity Report Card, which will provide guidance to LGBTQ+ applicants by evaluating whether medical schools adequately support their LGBTQ+ medical students. Fill out this survey to help us gather information about your medical school...