Pippa Simpson

TL;DR: Household food insecurity is associated with poorer self-reported health status of adults in this rural, high-risk sample in the Lower Mississippi Delta.

TL;DR: In adoptive transfer immunotherapy of newborn Foxp3-deficient mice, iTreg cells are an essential nonredundant regulatory subset that supplements nTreg cells in part by expanding TCR diversity within regulatory responses.

TL;DR: Household and child food insecurity are associated with being at risk for overweight and overweight status among many demographic categories of children and future longitudinal research is required to determine whether food insecurity is causally related to child overweight status.

TL;DR: Bacteriocin expression by commensal bacteria can influence niche competition in the gastrointestinal tract, and bacteriocins, delivered by Commensals that occupy a precise intestinal bacterial niche, may be an effective therapeutic approach to specifically eliminate intestinal colonization by multidrug-resistant bacteria, without profound disruption of the indigenous microbiota.