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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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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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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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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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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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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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. …”

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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Combatting pathogenic bacteria with synthetic immunotherapeutics from chitosan: antibody recruiting at engineered bacterial surface with peptidoglycan analogs by Xu, Yuan, Song, Shihao, Duan, Hongwei, Deng, Yinyue, Liu, Xue-Wei

“…The emergence of microbial drug resistance, coupled with the paucity of new antibiotics poses an impending threat to public health. …”
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Pathogen diversity and antimicrobial resistance transmission of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Malawi: a genomic epidemiological study... by Dyson, ZA, Ashton, PM, Khanam, F, Chunga Chirambo, A, Shakya, M, Meiring, JE, Tonks, S, Karkey, A, Msefula, C, Clemens, JD, Dunstan, SJ, Baker, S, Dougan, G, Pitzer, VE, Basnyat, B, Qadri, F, Heyderman, RS, Gordon, MA, Holt, KE, Pollard, AJ, STRATAA Study Group

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Funding:</strong> Wellcome Trust, Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, EU Horizon 2020, and UK National Institute for Health and Care Research.…”

Modular Titratable Polypills for Personalized Medicine and Simplification of Complex Medication Regimens by Karavasili, Christina, Babaee, Sahab, Kutty, Shruti, Chu, Jacqueline N., Min, Seokkee, Fitzgerald, Nina, Morimoto, Joshua, Inverardi, Nicoletta, Traverso, Giovanni

“…To fill the existing gap in drug dose personalization and simplification of complex medication regimens commonly encountered in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, tuberculosis, and tapering of corticosteroid therapy, a modular titratable polypill approach that simultaneously addresses both aspects is proposed. …”
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The influence of additives on the delivery of paclitaxel from bioresorbable PLGA films by Huang, Charlotte Liwen.

“…The study of the influences of additives on the drug delivery characteristics from PLGA thin films as a coating on angioplasty balloons was reported in this thesis. …”
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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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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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Interfacial phenomena and biological recognition of mammalian cells on biomimetic materials by Chan, Vincent.

“…We intend to fill this gap by interrogating the biophysical events involved in membrane-polymer interaction, biological adhesion, tissue engineering and cellular fluid mechanics. …”
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Inorganic nanoparticles–driven self–assembly of natural small molecules in water for constructing multifunctional nanocapsules against plant diseases by Liu, Li-Wei, Ding, Zheng-Hao, Ren, Gang-Gang, Wang, Guang-Di, Pan, Xin, Wei, Guo-Hai, Zhou, Xiang, Wu, Zhi-Bing, Jin, Zhi-Chao, Chi, Robin Yonggui, Yang, Song

“…The nanocapsules effectively kill plant–pathogenic bacteria via tight binding to the bacterial surface, inducing reactive oxygen species accumulation and disrupting bacterial cell walls. ZnO@Cur@PDA display strong activities against rice bacterial blight with protective activity of 64.0 % and curative activity of 62.2%, which is much better than commercial drugs bismerthiazol (protective activity of 33.0 % and curative activity of 38.4%) and zinc thiazole(protective activity of 38.6 % and curative activity of 31.8%). …”
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Multi-Modal Protein Function Prediction using a Joint Embedding Space from Two Graph Neural Networks by Tysinger, Emma P.

“…There’s a growing need for precise and quick computational prediction methods, filling the gap between sequence discovery and functional understanding. …”
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Methods for the Study of Galactofuranose in Mycobacteria by Taylor, Katherine I.

“…However, it is conspicuously absent from human cells, thus establishing its biosynthetic pathways as important potential drug targets. Our knowledge about the biological roles of galactofuranose in cells is hampered by a dearth of methods by which to study it. …”
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Revealing the biotoxicity of phosphorene oxide nanosheets based on the villin headpiece by Zhang, Wei, Gou, Yuanyuan, Cheng, Li, Dong, Kaiwei, Sheng, Yijie, Ye, Chao, Yang, Xianqing, Mu, Yuguang

“…Phosphorene, a novel member of the two-dimensional nanomaterial family, has demonstrated great potential in biomedical applications, such as photothermal therapy, drug delivery and antibacterial. However, phosphorene is unstable and easily oxidized in an aerobic environment. …”
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