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RESULTS The incidence of THA for patients aged 20 to 50 increased slightly from 33,003 in 2009 to 33,545 in 2016 (p less then 0.001). Overall, bearing surface type was reported in 46.8% (n=127,876) of THAs. Of the THAs with bearing surface codes, the use of MOP (29.6 to 18.7%) and MOM (39.6 to 4.4%) decreased, while COC (9.0 to 14.3%) and COP (21.8 to 62.6%) utilization increased (p less then 0.001 for all). Those receiving COC implants had the youngest average age (42 years) (p less then 0.001). Females were more likely to receive COC (44.2%) or COP (43.6%) implants (p less then 0.001). Obese individuals were more likely to receive MOP (21.3%) or COP (21.2%) (p less then 0.001). CONCLUSION Over an 8-year period, considerable shifts in bearing surface trends have occurred across the United States among 20 to 50-year-old patients. Advantages of ceramic femoral heads, along with increased acceptance of highly cross-linked polyethylene, appear to be reasons for the selection of COP over other bearing surfaces.Cortical plasticity is a finely regulated process that allows the central nervous system (CNS) to change in response to internal and external stimuli. While these modifications occur throughout normal brain development, interestingly, they are also elicited after peripheral nerve injury and surgery. Selleck SPOP-i-6lc This article provides an overview of the principle mechanisms of synaptic, neuronal, cortical and subcortical neuroplasticity, with special attention to cortical and subcortical modifications-as suggested by modern neuroimaging techniques-after peripheral nerve surgery. The main nerve transfer techniques for the superior extremities and their effect on cortical plasticity are also described.Approaches for studying the evolution of globular proteins are now well established yet are unsuitable for disordered sequences. Our understanding of the evolution of proteins containing disordered regions therefore lags that of globular proteins, limiting our capacity to estimate their evolutionary history, classify paralogs, and identify potential sequence-function relationships. Here, we overcome these limitations by using new analytical approaches that project representations of sequence space to dissect the evolution of proteins with both ordered and disordered regions, and the correlated changes between these. We use the Fasciclin-Like Arabinogalactan-proteins (FLAs) as a model family, since they contain a variable number of globular fasciclin domains as well as several distinct types of disordered regions proline (Pro)-rich arabinogalactan (AG) regions and longer Pro-depleted regions. Sequence space projections of fasciclin domains from 2019 FLAs from 78 species identified distinct clusters correspondiom.Kidney cancer is one of the ten most common cancers both in the United States and worldwide. Until this year, there had not previously been a conference focused on translational studies in the broad and heterogeneous group of kidney cancers. Therefore, a group of researchers, clinicians, and patient advocates dedicated to renal cell carcinoma (RCC) launched the Kidney Cancer Research Summit (KCRS) to spur collaboration and further therapeutic advances in these tumors. This commentary aims to summarize the oral presentations and serve as a record for future iterations of this meeting. The KCRS sessions addressed the tumor microenvironment, novel methods of drug delivery, single cell sequencing strategies, novel immune checkpoint blockade and cellular therapies, predictive biomarkers and rare variants of kidney cancers. In addition, the meeting included 2 sessions to promote scientific mentoring and kidney cancer research collaborations. A subsequent KCRS will be planned for the fall of 2020. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email journals.permissions@oup.com.Human placental development during early pregnancy is poorly understood. Many conceptuses are lost at this stage. It is thought that preeclampsia, intrauterine growth restriction, and other placental syndromes that manifest later in pregnancy may originate early in placentation. Thus, there is a need for models of early human placental development. Treating human embryonic stem cells (hESC) with BMP4 (bone morphogenic protein 4) plus A83-01 (ACTIVIN/NODAL signaling inhibitor) and PD173074 (fibroblast growth factor 2 or FGF2 signaling inhibitor) (BAP conditions) induces differentiation to the trophoblast lineage (hESCBAP), but it is not clear which stage of trophoblast differentiation these cells resemble. Here, comparison of the hESCBAP transcriptome to those of trophoblasts from human blastocysts, trophoblast stem cells, and placentas collected in the first - third trimester of pregnancy by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) suggests that hESC after 8 days BAP treatment most resemble first trimester syncytioehalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved.Biodegradation of the phenylurea herbicide linuron appears a specialization within a specific clade of the Variovorax genus. The linuron catabolic ability is likely acquired by horizontal gene transfer but the mechanisms involved are not known. The full genome sequences of six linuron degrading Variovorax strains isolated from geographically distant locations were analyzed to acquire insight into the mechanisms of genetic adaptation towards linuron metabolism. Whole genome sequence analysis confirmed the phylogenetic position of the linuron degraders in a separate clade within Variovorax and indicated that they unlikely originate from a common ancestral linuron degrader. The linuron degraders differentiated from Variovorax strains that do not degrade linuron by the presence of multiple plasmids of 20 to 839 kb, including plasmids of unknown plasmid groups. The linuron catabolic gene clusters showed (i) high conservation and synteny and (ii) strain-dependent distribution among the different plasmids. Most of them were bordered by IS1071 elements forming composite transposon structures, often in a multimeric array configuration, appointing IS1071 as a key element in the recruitment of linuron catabolic genes in Variovorax. Most of the strains carried at least one (catabolic) broad host range plasmid that might have been a second instrument for catabolic gene acquisition. We conclude that clade 1 Variovorax strains, despite their different geographical origin, made use of a limited genetic repertoire regarding both catabolic functions and vehicles to acquire linuron biodegradation. © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution.