Edoardo Fiorillo

TL;DR: In this article, an unmanned aerial vehicle (VIPtero) was assembled and tested with the aim of developing a flexible and powerful tool for site-specific vineyard management, which comprised a six-rotor aerial platform capable of flying autonomously to a predetermined point in space, and of a pitch and roll compensated multi-spectral camera for vegetation canopy reflectance recording.

TL;DR: A large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for thyroid function and dysfunction tests 8 million genetic variants in up to 72,167 individuals and identifies a novel thyroid hormone transporter (SLC17A4) and a metabolizing enzyme (AADAT) to provide new knowledge about thyroid hormone physiology and disease.

TL;DR: The reported discrepancy between expressed functions and functional potential suggests that caution should be used before drawing functional conclusions from metagenomic data, further supporting metaproteomics as a fundamental approach to characterize the human GM metabolic functions and activities.

TL;DR: A genome-wide association analysis of 34 studies imputed to the 1000 Genomes Project reference panel and including ∼120 000 participants of European ancestry identified 41 genome- wide significant fibrinogen loci; of which, 18 were newly identified.

TL;DR: The findings illustrate complex genetic regulation of immune cells with highly selective effects on autoimmune disease risk at the cell-subtype level and identify drug-targetable pathways informing the design of more specific treatments for autoimmune diseases.