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  Thus, this disposable device might help examine platelet dysfunction for preoperative patients and antiplatelet therapy in the clinic.This paper reports a quantitative and sensitive one-step point-of-care testing (POCT) chip built on a perfluorinated substrate patterned with polydopamine microspots array. The capture antibody was covalently immobilized on the polydopamine microspots, while the fluorescently labelled detection antibody was physically adsorbed on the perfluorinated surface. The POCT chip allowed one-step sandwich immunoassay and was able to directly detect the analytes from the whole blood without sample preprocessing. By further taking advantages of the strong fluorescence quenching ability of the polydopamine, the blocking-free substrate was able to achieve similar performance in detecting and quantifying the protein biomarkers as the substrate with the blocking treatment. The blocking-free strategy not only made the fabrication of the chip simple and convenient, but also improved the chip's sensitivity for biomarker quantification. Finally, we demonstrated that the self-contained POCT platform maintained the performance for one-step immunoassay even after long-term storage. With the POCT platform, we are one step closer to a sample-in-answer-out diagnostic system.This work presents an overview of terahertz (THz) spectroscopy with a focus on its implementation within microfluidic platforms. Such platforms are of great interest because they can enable label-free and reagent-free sensing. However, they must be implemented with thought towards the incorporated materials and structures as they can greatly impact the bandwidth, frequency resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, and dynamic range of the measurements. This review explores such relationships with insight given on the design and material considerations for the effective integration of THz spectroscopy in microfluidic platforms. The review also describes recent work on the application of THz spectroscopy to biomaterial analyses on increasing scales, targeting DNA, proteins, cells, and tissues.Profiling DNA mutation patterns for cancer classification plays an essential role in precision and personalized medicine. Conventional PCR-based mutation assay is limited by the extensive labour on target amplification. We herein create an amplification-free surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) biochip which enables direct and simultaneous identification of multiple point mutations in tumor cells. Without pre-amplifying the target sequences, the SERS assay reads out the presence of cellular mutations through the interpretation of Raman fingerprints. The SERS sensor is integrated into a microfluidic chip, achieving one-step multiplex analysis within 40 min. Importantly, by combining SERS spectra encoding technique with supervised learning algorithm, a panel of nucleotide mixtures can be well distinguished according to their mutation profiles. We initially demonstrate an excellent levels of classification in samples from colorectal cancer and melanoma cell lines. For final clinical validation, the system performance is verified by classifying cancer patient samples, which shows an accuracy above 90%. Due to the simplicity and rapidness, the SERS biosensor is expected to become a promising tool for clinical point-of-care diagnosis towards precision medicine.Zero-dimensional black phosphorus quantum dots (BPQDs) have unique structural characteristics and excellent properties for promising applications over other BP structures. With the decrease of BP stacked layers, BP becomes much unstable and is easy to be oxidized and degraded in air and water. To prevent BP oxidation and degradation is crucial during the preparation process of highly stable BPQDs with strong fluorescence (FL). Herein, we explored a zinc-ion-coordinated strategy to achieve the emerging Zn@BPQDs with improved colloidal and FL stabilities.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Romidepsin-FK228.html  Zn ions can be adsorbed on BP surface via cation-π interactions, which passivates lone pair electrons of phosphorus and makes BP much stable upon exposure to air and water. Zn@BPQDs were prepared through sonication-assisted liquid-phase exfoliation of bulk BP crystals in the presence of Zn ions and solvothermal reaction of exfoliated few-layer Zn@BP nanosheets. Experimental results confirm the preparation of Zn@BPQDs with improved stability and high FL. Zn@BPQDs were used for both FL spectral detection and naked-eye visual FL detection of glutathione in practical samples. As emerging FL reagents, biocompatible Zn@BPQDs were further used for efficient in-vitro cell imaging and in-vivo imaging in natural plants and living aquatic animals.In this study, we investigated the biophysical interaction between cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) and CD80. CTLA-4 is a key molecule in immunosuppression, and CD80 is a costimulatory receptor promoting T cell activation. We observed that after cell-cell contact was established between breast cancer cells and antigen presenting cells (APCs), CTLA-4 expressed on the breast cancer cells bind to CD80 expressed on the APCs, and underwent trans-endocytosis to deplete CD80. Force measurement and live cell imaging revealed that upon binding to CD80, forces generated by breast cancer cells and transmitted via CTLA-4 were sufficiently strong to displace CD80 from the surface of APCs to be internalized by breast cancer cells.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Romidepsin-FK228.html  We further demonstrated that because of the force-dependent trans-endocytosis of CD80, the capacity of APCs to activate T cells was significantly attenuated. Furthermore, inhibiting force generation in cancer cells would increase the T cell activating capacity of APCs. Our results provide a possible mechanism behind the immunosuppression commonly seen in breast cancer patients, and may lead to a new strategy to restore anti-tumor immunity by inhibiting pathways of force-generation.A visual cascade detection system has been applied to the detection and analysis of drug-resistance profile of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC), a causative agent of tuberculosis. The cascade system utilizes highly selective split RNA-cleaving deoxyribozyme (sDz) sensors. When activated by a complementary nucleic acid, sDz releases the peroxidase-like deoxyribozyme apoenzyme, which, in complex with a hemin cofactor, catalyzes the color change of the sample's solution. The excellent selectivity of the cascade has allowed for the detection of point mutations in the sequences of the MTC rpoB, katG, and gyrA genes, which are responsible for resistance to rifampin, isoniazid, and fluoroquinolone, respectively. When combined with isothermal nucleic acid sequence based amplification (NASBA), the assay was able to detect amplicons of 16S rRNA and katG mRNA generated from 0.1 pg and 10 pg total RNA taken for NASBA, respectively, in less than 2 h, producing a signal detectable with the naked eye. The proposed assay may become a prototype for point-of-care diagnosis of drug resistant bacteria with visual signal output.