by Usha Govindarajulu | Jan 24, 2019 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
The science of tissue repair is constantly evolving. A new understanding of how the body repairs wounds is influencing the strategies used by the medical community. A great example of this is new TrAPs technology. TrAPs, or traction force-activated payloads,...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jan 10, 2019 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
Life expectancy is a powerful method of determining the health of a country. A steady increase in life expectancy, considered the norm for decades, may no longer be the case. The last time it fell for several consecutive years was directly after World War I which was...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
Virotherapy is an emerging and innovative branch of medicine that uses viruses to kill cancer cells. While scientists have known for centuries that some viruses can kill cancer cells, the field has not received focused attention and funding until recent years. Due to...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Oct 31, 2018 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
Abstract To allow for non-linear exposure-response relationships, we applied flexible non-parametric smoothing techniques to models of time to lung cancer mortality in two occupational cohorts with skewed exposure distributions. We focused on three different...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Oct 5, 2018 | Biostatistics, Blog
Abstract OBJECTIVES: Genotyping errors can induce biases in frequency estimates for haplotypes of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Here, we considered the impact of SNP allele misclassification on haplotype odds ratio estimates from case-control studies of...
