{"title":"Biomechanical Forces in the Tissue Engineering and Regeneration of Shoulder, Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints","authors":"Merlin Rajesh Lal LP, Devendra K Agrawal","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280111","url":null,"abstract":"Tear on the tendon, ligament and articular cartilage of the joints do not heal by itself and new modalities of treatment are required to address the need for full restoration of joint functions. Accompanied by degenerative diseases, the healing of these tissues does not occur naturally and hence requires surgical interventions, but with associated morbidity. Tissue engineering strategies are now focusing on the effective incorporation of biomechanical stimulation by the application of biomechanical forces relevant to the tissue of interest to regenerate and engineer functional tissues. Bioreactors are being continuously developed to accomplish this goal. Although bioreactors have been developed, the advancement in the field of biomaterial, basic science, and cell engineering warrant further refinement for their effective use. In this article we reviewed the application of biomechanical forces in the tissue engineering and regeneration of the joints such as rotator cuff of shoulder, ball and socket joint of the hip, articular cartilage of knee, and the ankle joints.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135059432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rebekah C Smith, Terisa Yiin, Cindy Monelavongsy, Cherrie Soledad Tan, Marta Rodriguez, Michele Lim, Yin Allison Liu
{"title":"Ways to Improve Workflow and Morale in an Ophthalmology Clinic: Survey Advice from Clinic Staff","authors":"Rebekah C Smith, Terisa Yiin, Cindy Monelavongsy, Cherrie Soledad Tan, Marta Rodriguez, Michele Lim, Yin Allison Liu","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280108","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: We aim to improve job workflow and satisfaction amongst clinic staff at an academic ophthalmology department.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136257652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vinci Power Nap® Synchronization Technology - Neuroarchitecture for better sleep, adding Energy for Life, Reducing Stress and Jet Lag, Improving Wellbeing and Body-Mind Regeneration. Helpful for Leaders, Doctors, Soldiers, Children, Drivers, Pilots, Astronauts, People Traveling On Earth And Beyond","authors":"Magdalena Filcek","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280076","url":null,"abstract":"The Vinci Power Nap® neurotechnological system created for energy naps, which can benefits mankind on Earth and in space travels. This cutting edge tool helping to reduce stress, jet lag, regulating the circadian rhythm, improving focus, efficiency, reaction times, preventing losing bone mass, the quality of sleep, health and human wellbeing in future smart cities and Lunar, Martian habitats. The remarkable results can be found in studies on UN Delegates at COP24, UNICEF project for war traumatized refugees women and children, soldiers with PTSD, pilots and analog astronauts, showing the healing power of touching, frequency of rocking, napping in a zero gravity position. Good sleep is needed to reset, recover, strengthen the immune system, also avoid errors resulting from fatigue and jet lag, which is especially important for business leaders, doctors, drivers, athletes, students, soldiers, pilots, astronauts and tourists. The frequency of the VPN technology pendulum movement is a revolution in the synchronization of breathing, heartbeat, delta waves in the brain, during which the best regeneration of the body and mind occurs. Moreover, the pulsating pressure on the skin increase the level of hormones: dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, etc. All this contributes to the regeneration of sleep and energy, improving human’s psychophysical condition, longevity and advances in sleep and space medicine.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87761299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of the Interaction of Citric Acid and Drought on the Growth of Spotted Gum (Corymbia Maculata) Seedlings","authors":"Mark Burns","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280097","url":null,"abstract":"Context: Abiotic stress, and particularly drought, is a major threat to plant growth generally and world food security specifically and it is important for humanity to come up with ways to reduce the impact of drought and abiotic stress on plant growth. This is particularly important in the context of global climate change. Earlier research by a range of researchers has hinted that the use of cheap citric acid in treating plants may induce enhanced stress response pathways which may assist in enhancing drought tolerance. However, how altered stress response pathways affect plant growth patterns, and how these may affect drought tolerance, has not been well researched.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134989154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Risk Factors for Low Birth Weight among Neonates Delivered in Public Health Facilities in Adama Town, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia","authors":"Nigusse Obse Nebi, Tolossa Eticha Chaka, Tilaye Workineh Abebe, Ephrem Mannekulih M","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280102","url":null,"abstract":"Back ground: Low birth weight is the major predictor of prenatal mortality and morbidity worldwide. It has been defined by the World Health Organization as weight at birth of less than 2,500 grams irrespective of their gestational age. Rate of low birth weight is still high in developing countries like Ethiopia particularly Oromia regional state where adequate primary health care services for maternal and child health are not universally available to all the populations. It is therefore imperative to identify risk factors for low birth weight in various communities in order to come up with feasible intervention strategies to minimize the problem.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135959526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Harisankar Sadasivan, Milos Maric, Eric Dawson, Vishanth Iyer, Johnny Israeli, Satish Narayanasamy
{"title":"Accelerating Minimap2 for Accurate Long Read Alignment on GPUs.","authors":"Harisankar Sadasivan, Milos Maric, Eric Dawson, Vishanth Iyer, Johnny Israeli, Satish Narayanasamy","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280067","DOIUrl":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280067","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Long read sequencing technology is becoming increasingly popular for Precision Medicine applications like Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) and microbial abundance estimation. Minimap2 is the state-of-the-art aligner and mapper used by the leading long read sequencing technologies, today. However, Minimap2 on CPUs is very slow for long noisy reads. ~60-70% of the run-time on a CPU comes from the highly sequential chaining step in Minimap2. On the other hand, most Point-of-Care computational workflows in long read sequencing use Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). We present minimap2-accelerated (mm2-ax), a heterogeneous design for sequence mapping and alignment where minimap2's compute intensive chaining step is sped up on the GPU and demonstrate its time and cost benefits. We extract better intra-read parallelism from chaining without losing mapping accuracy by forward transforming Minimap2's chaining algorithm. Moreover, we better utilize the high memory available on modern cloud instances apart from better workload balancing, data locality and minimal branch divergence on the GPU. We show mm2-ax on an NVIDIA A100 GPU improves the chaining step with 5.41 - 2.57X speedup and 4.07 - 1.93X speedup : costup over the fastest version of Minimap2, mm2-fast, benchmarked on a Google Cloud Platform instance of 30 SIMD cores.</p>","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"6 1","pages":"13-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018915/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9508766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K Forci, E Bouaiti, MH Alami, A Mdaghri Alaoui, A Thimou Izgua
{"title":"Exploratory Study of Risk Factors for Congenital Malformations in Morocco","authors":"K Forci, E Bouaiti, MH Alami, A Mdaghri Alaoui, A Thimou Izgua","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280105","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The aim of the study is to describe the teratogenic risk factors of congenital malformations in a large sample from the Moroccan population.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135959525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fábio Morato de Oliveira, Aline Monezi Montel, Wagner Gouvêa dos Santos
{"title":"Telomere Dynamics, Gene Expression and Genetic Instability in Glioblastoma Cells Treated with Reversine","authors":"Fábio Morato de Oliveira, Aline Monezi Montel, Wagner Gouvêa dos Santos","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280118","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In the present study, we analyzed the cytotoxic effect of reversine, a small molecule used for stem cell dedifferentiation and potential to selectively induce cell death, on two human glioblastoma cell lines. The AURKA and AURKB gene expression were quantified in both cell lines following the exposure to different concentrations of reversine, and the effect of reversine on telomere dynamics, in a 3D scale was analyzed. AURKA and AURKB genes express mitotic kinases with an important role in the regulation of several mitotic events. Hyperexpression of these genes are found in patients with cytogenetic abnormalities presenting an unfavorable prognosis.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135709307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dunrui Wang, Xiaolan Qian, Yi-Chieh Nancy Du, Beatriz Sanchez-Solana
{"title":"cProSite: A Web Based Interactive Platform for Online Proteomics, Phosphoproteomics, and Genomics Data Analysis","authors":"Dunrui Wang, Xiaolan Qian, Yi-Chieh Nancy Du, Beatriz Sanchez-Solana","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280119","url":null,"abstract":"We developed cProSite, a website that provides online genomics, proteomics, and phosphoproteomics analysis for the data of The National Cancer Institute’s Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC). This tool focuses on comparisons and correlations between different proteins and mRNAs of tumors and normal tissues. Our website is designed with biologists and clinicians in mind, with a user-friendly environment and fast search engine. The search results of cProSite can be used for clinical data validation and provide useful strategic information to identify drug targets at proteomic, phosphoproteomic, or genomic levels. The site is available at http://cprosite.ccr.cancer.gov.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135709563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extracellular Matrix Glycoprotein Thrombospondin 1: An Overlooked Pathological Mediator in Vasculopathy of Systemic Sclerosis-Secondary Raynaud’s Phenomena","authors":"Zulfa Allaf, Megan Yao","doi":"10.26502/jbb.2642-91280093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26502/jbb.2642-91280093","url":null,"abstract":"Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune connective tissue disorder characterized by a widespread vasculopathy, autoimmunity, and fibrosis of the skin and internal organs such as the lung and kidneys. Raynaud's phenomenon is the earliest recognized symptom of SSc. Unlike the primary Raynaud's disease, the condition responds well to management with non-pharmacological measures and pharmacological agents, Raynaud's phenomenon presented complex and progressive vasculopathy in the superficial vasculature embedded under the skin. The mechanisms underlying the development and progress of Raynaud's phenomenon are still unclear. Repeated Raynaud's phenomenon attacks are characteristic of ischemia-reperfusion episodes with different durations. What occurred to the superficial vascular bed highly possibly replicates at the vasculature in the vulnerable internal organ(s) at a later time and a distinctive pace. Elevated extracellular matrix glycoprotein thrombospondin 1 (TSP1) levels are found in circulation and throughout the skin in patients with SSc. TSP1-mediated vascular pathologies have been extensively investigated in multiple conditions, including hypertension, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and renal ischemia-reperfusion injury. TSP1 vasculopathy in these conditions is evidenced by a variety of function-modulating and vascular remodeling effects, specifically enhancing vasoconstrictive tone, platelet hyperaggregation, and inflammatory cell infiltration, inducing capillary rarefaction and promoting intimal thickening. In addition, the well-known anti-angiogenic property of TSP1 significantly impairs the self-repair and self-renewal capacity of growth factor-or stem cell-based regenerative therapies. Thanks to the growing knowledge of TSP1 vasculopathy in affected internal organs and adverse effects on regrowth, it is proposed that pathological levels of TSP1 may exert a similar pattern of multifaceted effects on the vasculature in SSc and regenerative therapies under investigation.","PeriodicalId":15066,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83871546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}