A homeostatic function of CXCR2 signalling in articular cartilage

Funding This work was funded by Arthritis Research UK (grants 17859, 17971, 19654), INNOCHEM EU FP6 (grant LSHB-CT-2005-51867), MRC (MR/K013076/1) and the William Harvey Research Foundation

Generation of Functional Beta-Like Cells from Human Exocrine Pancreas

Funding: This work was supported by a grant from the Medical Research Council MR/J015277/1. The Scottish National Islet Transplant Programme is funded by the National Services Division of NHS Scotland. KRM was funded by a Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust / Scottish Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Initiative 85664. Acknowledgments This work was supported by a grant from the Medical Research Council MR/J015277/1. The Scottish National Islet Transplant Programme is funded by the National Services Division of NHS Scotland. KRM was funded by a Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust/ Scottish Translational Medicine and Therapeutics Initiative 85664. We thank Joanna Sweetman for assistance in optimisation of the immunogold staining.

Host-Imposed Copper Poisoning Impacts Fungal Micronutrient Acquisition during Systemic Candida albicans Infections

This work was supported by the European Research Council (http://erc.europa.eu/: STRIFE Advanced Grant ERC-2009-AdG-249793). A.J.P.B. was also supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council (www.bbsrc.ac.uk: Research Grants BB/F00513X/1, BB/K017365/1), the UK Medical Research Council (www.mrc.ac.uk: Programme Grant MR/M026663/1; Centre Grant MR/ N006364/1), and the Wellcome Trust (www.wellcome.ac.uk: Strategic Award 097377)

The Observing Self : Diminishing Egocentrism Through Brief Mindfulness Meditation

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The Hippo effector TAZ (WWTR1) transforms myoblasts and its abundance is associated with reduced survival in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma

Acknowledgements This study was funded by Sarcoma UK, Friends of Anchor and the Medical Research Council grant number 99477 awarded to HW and PSZ. This work was also supported, in part, by NHS funding to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at The Royal Marsden and the Institute of Cancer Research, and the Chris Lucas Trust, UK. We also thank the CCLG Tissue Bank for access to samples, and contributing CCLG centres, including members of the ECMC paediatric network. The CCLG Tissue Bank is funded by Cancer Research UK and CCLG. In addition we would like to thank Prof KunLiang Guan and Prof Malcolm Logan for kindly providing constructs

Risk of fracture amongst patients with Parkinson's disease and other forms of parkinsonism

Acknowledgements We thank all the participants who took part, the research fellows (Kate Taylor, Robert Caslake, David McGhee, Angus Macleod) and nurses (Clare Harris, Joanna Gordon, Anne Hayman, Hazel Forbes) who helped assess the participants, and the study secretaries (Susan Kilpatrick, Pam Rebecca) and data management team (Katie Wilde, David Ritchie). The PINE study was funded by the BMA Doris Hillier award, Parkinson's UK, the RS McDonald Trust, NHS Grampian Endowments, SPRING and the BUPA Foundation. None of the funders had any influence in the study design, the collection, analysis and interpretation of the data, the writing of the report or the decision to submit the article for publication.

Progress in upscaling Miscanthus biomass production for the European bio-economy with seed-based hybrids

Funded by UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Grant Number: LK0863 BBSRC strategic programme Grant on Energy Grasses & Bio-refining. Grant Number: BBS/E/W/10963A01 OPTIMISC. Grant Number: FP7-289159 WATBIO. Grant Number: FP7-311929 Innovate UK/BBSRC ‘MUST’. Grant Number: BB/N016149/1

The Hippo effector TAZ (WWTR1) transforms myoblasts and TAZ abundance is associated with reduced survival in embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma

Acknowledgements This study was funded by Sarcoma UK, Friends of Anchor and the Medical Research Council grant number 99477 awarded to HW and PSZ. This work was also supported, in part, by NHS funding to the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at The Royal Marsden and the Institute of Cancer Research, and the Chris Lucas Trust, UK. We also thank the CCLG Tissue Bank for access to samples, and contributing CCLG centres, including members of the ECMC paediatric network. The CCLG Tissue Bank is funded by Cancer Research UK and CCLG. In addition we would like to thank Prof KunLiang Guan and Prof Malcolm Logan for kindly providing constructs