A bilayer swellable drug-eluting ureteric stent : localized drug delivery to treat urothelial diseases by Lim, Wei Shan, Chen, Kenneth, Chong, Tsung Wen, Xiong, Gordon Minru, Birch, William R., Pan, Jisheng, Lee, Bae Hoon, Er, Pei Shan, Salvekar, Abhijit Vijay, Venkatraman, Subbu S., Huang, Yingying

“…On deployment, the device swells to co-apt with the ureteric wall and ensure drug availability to these tissues. …”
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Collection and analysis on data from Drugs.com by Aw, Teng Teng

“…In this report, Scrapy, is a web scraper, which will be used to extract data from Drugs.com. Scrapy is a framework, done in Python and the outputs will be saved in JSON files. …”
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Genomic profiling of mycobacterium tuberculosis strains, Myanmar by Aung, Htin Lin, Nyunt, Wint Wint, Fong, Yang, Biggs, Patrick J., Winkworth, Richard C., Lockhart, Peter J., Yeo, Tsin Wen, Hill, Philip C., Cook, Gregory M., Aung, Si Thu

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Layer-by-layer assembled micro and nano carriers for drug delivery applications by Mutukumaraswamy Shaillender

“…In nano- or microparticulate drug delivery, both control of the drug release and interaction of the particles with the cellular environment are critical attributes. …”
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A bilayer swellable drug-eluting stent for the treatment of fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture recurrence by Lim, Wei Shan

“…The first layer is needed for sustained release of drug while the second layer is required for close contact with urothelial wall. …”
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Characterization and evaluation of bilayer coating for enhanced localization and sustained drug delivery for fibrosis-induced ureteral stricture by Chin, Jia Wen

“…The usage of a bilayer coating, consisting of a hydrogel layer and a drug-loaded polymer layer, allows for direct contact with the ureter walls upon swelling and drug delivery through the urothelium. …”
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Cationic glycosylated block co-β-peptide acts on the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria as anti-biofilm agents by Zhang, Kaixi, Raju, Cheerlavancha, Zhong, Wenbin, Pethe, Kevin, Gründling, Angelika, Chan-Park, Mary B.

“…In addition to the emergence of resistance to last resort drugs, bacteria escape antibiotics killing by forming complex biofilms. …”
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Increasing antibiotic activity by rapid bioorthogonal conjugation of drug to resistant bacteria using an upconverted light-activated photocatalyst by Du, Quanchao, Wu, Xiangyang, Bi, Wuguo, Xing, Bengang, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee

“…We demonstrate that the mode of action is due to increased inhibition of peptidoglycan cell wall biosynthesis. The findings in this study demonstrate that on-demand NIR-light activated bioorthogonal conjugation of Van to microbes is a viable alternative treatment in combating drug-resistant bacteria.…”
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Identifying antifungal resistance mechanisms and modes of action using SAturated Transposon Analysis in Yeast (SATAY) by Karadzas, M

“…These screens reveal antifungal drug targets, transporters responsible for drug uptake or efflux, as well as metabolic, signalling and trafficking pathways affecting antifungal susceptibility. …”

Methods for the Study of Galactofuranose in Mycobacteria by Taylor, Katherine I.

“…Second, we leveraged the rapidly expanding set of biosynthetic probes of the mycobacterial cell wall to rapidly characterize intracellular distances between distinct layers of the cell wall in Mycobacterium tuberculosis model organisms Corynebacterium glutamicum and Mycobacterium smegmatis using fluorescence resonance energy transfer. …”
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Construction and characterization of a Lactococcus lactis in-trans surface display system harboring murine glycosylated tyrosinase related protein-2 by Kalyanasundram, Jeevanathan

“…The Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) status of LAB such as Lactococcus lactis coupled with non-recombinant strategy of in-trans surface display system, provide a safe platform for therapeutic drug and vaccine development. However, therapeutic proteins fused with cell-wall anchoring motif production are predominantly limited to prokaryotic expression system. …”
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Utilizing food waste and thermoplastic starch (TPS) in 3D printed PLA formulations for sustainable and customizable controlled delivery systems by Wang, Liwen

“…With the addition of TPS, the drug release profile can be adjusted from 8 – 120 hours using different TPS ratios and different printed wall thicknesses. …”
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Thermal effects on particle deposition in microchannels by Yan, Zhibin

“…Transport and interactions of colloidal particles and biomolecules in microchannels are of great importance to many microfluidic applications, such as drug delivery in life science, microscale heat exchangers in electronic cooling, food processing industry etc. …”
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Investigation of phenylpropanoid sucrose esters as antidiabetic compounds by Wong, Kathy Pooi Wen

“…Since hybrid 77 is a systemic drug, dosing of the compound would have to account for both the rate at which it is transported across the gut wall and its toxicity. …”
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Delay-and-pay: prolonging pharmaceutical patent protection without paying the ‘price’ by Foss-Solbrekk, K

“…<p>This thesis argues that actors use the patent system as part of a ‘delay-and-pay’ strategy to preserve drug prices for as long as possible by delaying generic/biosimilar market entry – and that they have a significant incentive to do so. …”

Mechanism of damnacanthal induced apoptosis in CEM-SS cell line by Gopalsamy, Banulata, Saiful Yazan, Latifah, Abdul Hamid, Hisyam

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Cloud Spark Cluster to analyse English prescription big data for NHS intelligence by Fernando, Sandra, Sowinski-Mydlarz, Viktor, Virdee, Bal Singh

“…This study illustrates regions as well as GP practices in terms of reimbursement cost, drug consumption level, the type of the drug, and the disease type; varied demand for dispensed chemical substances over the years; shows what diseases have increased or decreased over the years as well as the total cost and its trends.…”
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Data-Driven Classification of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Companies by Xu, Angelina

“…We use fundamental financial data, 10-K filings, and company drug development data to develop this new classification scheme. …”
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Synthesis, antimalarial activity, and molecular dynamic approaches of salophen metal complexes by Ali, Amatul Hamizah, Mukhtar, Nur Hafizah, Ling, Ng Yee, Norazmi, Nur Aqilah Zahirah, Agustar, Hani Kartini, Ling, Lau Yee, Abd Karim, Nurul Huda, Yusoff, Siti Fairus Mohd, Borzehandani, Mostafa Yousefzadeh, Hassan, Nurul Izzaty

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AI is a viable alternative to high throughput screening: a 318-target study by Wallach, Izhar, Bernard, Denzil, Nguyen, Kong, Ho, Gregory, Morrison, Adrian, Stecula, Adrian, Rosnik, Andreana, O’Sullivan, Ann Marie, Davtyan, Aram, Samudio, Ben, Thomas, Bill, Worley, Brad, Butler, Brittany, Laggner, Christian, Thayer, Desiree, Moharreri, Ehsan, Friedland, Greg, Truong, Ha, van den Bedem, Henry, Ng, Ho Leung, Stafford, Kate, Sarangapani, Krishna, Giesler, Kyle, Ngo, Lien, Mysinger, Michael, Ahmed, Mostafa, Anthis, Nicholas J., Henriksen, Niel, Gniewek, Pawel, Eckert, Sam, de Oliveira, Saulo, Suterwala, Shabbir, PrasadPrasad, Srimukh Veccham Krishna, Shek, Stefani, Contreras, Stephanie, Hare, Stephanie, Palazzo, Teresa, O’Brien, Terrence E., Van Grack, Tessa, Williams, Tiffany, Chern, Ting-Rong, Kenyon, Victor, Lee, Andreia H., Cann, Andrew B., Bergman, Bastiaan, Anderson, Brandon M., Cox, Bryan D., Warrington, Jeffrey M., Sorenson, Jon M., Goldenberg, Joshua M., Young, Matthew A., DeHaan, Nicholas, Pemberton, Ryan P., Schroedl, Stefan, Abramyan, Tigran M., Gupta, Tushita, Mysore, Venkatesh, Presser, Adam G., Ferrando, Adolfo A., Andricopulo, Adriano D., Ghosh, Agnidipta, Ayachi, Aicha Gharbi, Mushtaq, Aisha, Shaqra, Ala M., Toh, Alan Kie Leong, Smrcka, Alan V., Ciccia, Alberto, de Oliveira, Aldo Sena, Sverzhinsky, Aleksandr, de Sousa, Alessandra Mara, Agoulnik, Alexander I., Kushnir, Alexander, Freiberg, Alexander N., Statsyuk, Alexander V., Gingras, Alexandre R., Degterev, Alexei, Tomilov, Alexey, Vrielink, Alice, Garaeva, Alisa A., Bryant-Friedrich, Amanda, Caflisch, Amedeo, Patel, Amit K., Rangarajan, Amith Vikram, Matheeussen, An, Battistoni, Andrea, Caporali, Andrea, Chini, Andrea, Ilari, Andrea, Mattevi, Andrea, Foote, Andrea Talbot, Trabocchi, Andrea, Stahl, Andreas, Herr, Andrew B., Berti, Andrew, Freywald, Andrew, Reidenbach, Andrew G., Lam, Andrew, Cuddihy, Andrew R., White, Andrew, Taglialatela, Angelo

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