Brask Kang

Clostridium perfringens is a key anaerobic pathogen causing food poisoning. Definitive detection by standard culture method is time-consuming and labor intensive. Current rapid commercial test kits are prohibitively expensive. It is thus necessary to develop rapid and cost-effective detection tool. Here, loop-mediated isothermal amplification…[Read more]

y correlates well with markers of pulmonary inflammation, such as IL-6 and IL-8. In animals with lung injury, pulmonary AP activity is elevated. Administration of recombinant AP does not alter pulmonary inflammation and endothelial or epithelial dysfunction in the acute phase of a murine lung injury model.

In ventilated critically ill patients,…[Read more]

Capturing fast cellular processes with widefield fluorescence microscopy and multiple fluorophores has historically required the addition of motorised components. The light source has often been overlooked as an affordable means of achieving multi-wavelength imaging, but LEDs have changed the game. Here we compare typical configurations for…[Read more]

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a biomarker of depression. Recent studies have found adenosine deaminase acting on RNA1 (ADAR1) is a novel target being sensitive to stress at epigenetic level. The epigenetic regulation mechanism of stress-related depression is still unclear so far. To explore the potential regulating mechanism of ADAR1…[Read more]