Saint Mary's College of California

Inhalation of Distinct Emission Components Comprising Traffic-Related Air Pollution Elicits Sex-Specific Effects on Pulmonary and Systemic Inflammation in the TgF344-AD Transgenic Rat Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

Abstract Air pollution is associated with not only respiratory but also neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). While underlying mechanisms remain unclear, the lung–brain axis has been proposed as a potential pathway in which pulmonary inflammation triggered...

Platform Authority on Prime Time: PBS’s Finding Your Roots and the Televisual Production of Genetic Truth

Direct-to-consumer DNA testing has rendered family secrets newly visible through platforms that translate kinship into databases, laboratory-derived genetic profiles, algorithmic relative matching, and quantified displays. This article examines how PBS’s Finding Your Roots import...