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Tufts University
Recent research
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Demographic subgroup-aware analysis of blood pressure predictive models
Blood pressure (BP) is an important cardiovascular health indicator, usually monitored non-invasively with a sphygmomanometer, which can be bulky and inconvenient for real-time monitoring. Blood pressure estimation using photoplethysmography (PPG) waveform analysis offers a promi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background Young women have a lower risk of myocardial infarction (MI) compared to age-matched men, protection that is lost with aging or obesity. There are sex differences in human plaque histopathology, where male plaques are more inflamed and female plaques have more smooth mu...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Suspended carbon nanotubes provide a useful platform for studying controlled nanomechanical motion in regimes where environmental fluctuations, memory effects, and quantum coherence can all influence the dynamics. We model the fundamental flexural mode of a carbon nanotube driven...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Ceramic dental implants have been proposed as metal-free alternatives to titanium implants. This in vitro study compared the biomechanical measurements and drilling-related surface temperatures of two commercial ceramic implant systems with different dimensions and drilling proto...
- AI & Computing
Date presented: April 23, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: David H. Vo, vo.david98@gmail.com
- Biology
Therapeutic Horseback Riding for Youth With Autism and Psychiatric Comorbidities: A Randomized Trial
OBJECTIVE: Autism spectrum disorder care is often complicated by co-occurring psychiatric symptoms. Equine-assisted services show promise for improving behavioral outcomes in this population. We aimed to examine benefits of equine-assisted services for youth with autism at higher...
- Physics & Space
Abstract To realize practical quantum information processing systems with high fidelity, disparate materials and components must be integrated on a scalable, unified platform. Among these, III-V alloys with their widely tunable optical properties and advantageous transport proper...
- Health & Medicine
Trends in Spending on Corrective Lenses
Importance About 50% of the population has a refractive error, but corrective lenses can impose cost barriers on patients given the lack of widespread vision insurance. Objective To describe temporal trends and sociodemographic variation in corrective lens spending and payment so...
- Biology
Epigenetic aging and transposon dysregulation reflect size-related lifespan compression in dogs
The extraordinary lifespan variation in domestic dogs provides a natural experiment for testing how intrinsic rates of biological aging shape lifespan. Using 1640 methylomes from 894 dogs, we developed an epigenetic clock that predicted mortality and demonstrated that epigenetic...
- BiologyOpen access
Herbivore-specific plant defense responses to a pre-attack risk cue
Cues of potential herbivory, such as the locomotion mucus from gastropod herbivores, may influence germination and growth. Because it remains unclear whether use of gastropod cues to initiate defense is a widespread phenomenon in plants, we examined how mucus from multiple gastro...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting more than 55 million people worldwide and is characterized by cognitive decline, amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles. Although transgenic rodent models have advanced understanding of...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Association of Race/Ethnicity on Resolving Inactive Kidney Transplant Status Prior to COVID-19
Introduction Minority waitlisted kidney patients are less likely to resolve an inactive status change. We investigate race/ethnicity-based differences in the reasons for and resolution of waitlist inactivation. Methods The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network database wa...
- Health & Medicine
ABSTRACT Objectives To evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of integrated oral health services within primary care and other health system settings. Methods A systematic review of electronic databases was conducted. Studies evaluating the integration of oral health servi...
- BiologyOpen access
Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health threat, with disproportionate impact in regions with limited diagnostic infrastructure. To address this challenge, we developed BADLOCK (Bacterial and AMR Detection by SHERLOCK), a rapid, low-cost molecular diagnostic platform for...
- Health & Medicine
Acceptance of Organs From Deceased Donors: Results of a Global Survey.
Background: With <10% of transplantation needs being met, one contributing factor may be the potential subjectivity in transplant specialists' acceptance of organs. Such decisions, if influenced by knowledge and/or comfort gaps, warrant intervention. We assessed knowledge and com...
- Health & Medicine
Background: Widely accessible education on organ donation and transplantation (ODT) is a tool to reduce waiting lists, as <10% of transplant needs are met (Global Observatory on Donation and Transplantation). We aimed to assess the current state of access to education on ODT worl...
- Health & Medicine
. 2026;116(10):1520-1528. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308638).
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Compiling WebAssembly Concolic Execution with Staging, Continuations, and Snapshots
Concolic execution is a variant of symbolic execution that runs a program simultaneously with concrete and symbolic inputs. It records the symbolic constraints encountered along a concrete execution path, then solves those constraints to generate inputs that explore new paths. Ex...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Physics-Informed Nonlinear Vector Autoregressive Models for the Prediction of Dynamical Systems
Abstract. Machine learning techniques have recently been of great interest for solving differential equations. Training these models is classically a data-fitting task, but knowledge of the expression of the differential equation can be used to supplement the training objective,...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
The rapid expansion of personalized precision medicine and the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases have rekindled crucial needs for individualized therapeutic drug delivery systems. Conventional oral formulations are largely based on standardized designs for mass production...