Jasper Hoi Chun Luong, Z. Kozlakidis, I. Cheong, Hui Wang
{"title":"Innovations and Limitations in Areca Nut Research: A Narrative Review","authors":"Jasper Hoi Chun Luong, Z. Kozlakidis, I. Cheong, Hui Wang","doi":"10.36401/iddb-22-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-22-6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Areca nut (AN) and betel quid (BQ) products have been highly scrutinized by the scientific community in the last decade due to their classification by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as a group 1 carcinogen. However, neither the size of the user demographic nor the production levels of the product have varied greatly since the announcement, demonstrating that large demographics remain susceptible to oral cancer. Researching the demographic groups and their preferred AN or BQ products has helped provide an overview of the problem globally, from the diversity of products used to the users' demographic variation, including ethnicity, age group, wealth levels, and other factors. However, there is still a considerable lack of available sources related to AN or BQ usage in China, which is the region with the second-highest number of AN or BQ users. Recent studies of the chemical composition of AN or BQ products from different regions or with different preparation methods have reported varied chemical compositions. This is a novel view of the product because chemical components found to be carcinogenic, such as alkaloid arecoline, decreased under certain processes. Thus, different innovative approaches could be considered for AN or BQ research as use of these products has great historical, cultural, and social significance and there is a potential to be less harmful to humans.","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"13 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":"130955764","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":"Data Protection in Healthcare-Integrated Biobanking","authors":"P. Duhm-Harbeck, J. Habermann","doi":"10.36401/iddb-22-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-22-7","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 Development of personalized medicine depends on research using clinical biospecimens and data. This interface between clinical care and translational research is increasingly served by hospital-integrated biobanks; yet their implementation is hampered by complex data regulations.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 A generic data protection concept with a decision and application matrix was developed addressing five criteria: (1) organizational integration into university medicine, (2) biobank governance, (3) ethical and legal aspects, (4) specifications of the BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik [Federal Office for Information Security]), and (5) FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) principles for research data. Applicability was tested for the highest complexity level at Campus Lübeck.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 The data protection concept was approved by the local ethics committee as well as local and national data protection authorities. The concept allows an automated research-guided patient recruitment and data protection-compliant information technology (IT) in connection to national and international research networks. It ensures university and hospital conformity with the EU Data Protection Regulation. Consent behavior of 277,766 patients over five years proved routine practicability (error rate 0.0013%; withdrawals 0.09%). Clinical staff obtained higher consent rates (85.6%) compared with consent rates for use of data only at central patient admission (56.1%); even though consents in central patient admission increased constantly during observation time.\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 The generic data protection concept can legitimately enable personalized medicine through biobanking in the clinical context.\u0000","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"13 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":"128528415","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":"Considerations on Digitizing Biomedical Research Infrastructures in Low- and Middle-Income Countries","authors":"Anis Abboute, Sandra Nanyonga, F. Elkhwsky","doi":"10.36401/iddb-23-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-23-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"138 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":"115625706","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":"Conception and Configuration of Biobank of CART Biospecimen Sets for Pediatrics Research","authors":"Min Wang, Shuang Li, Junmei Zhou","doi":"10.36401/iddb-22-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-22-8","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Biospecimen sets usually consist of various biospecimens collected in continuous clinical stages, carefully designed in advance by experts with diverse backgrounds according to the potential research purposes of translational medicine. This article reviews the importance and configuration of collecting biospecimen sets from CART clinical trials. A well-designed biospecimen collection plan must be considered seriously before implementing a genetically engineered chimeric antigen receptor T (CART) clinical trial. CART cells have been applied as the last line of defense for children with B-cell malignancies. Although some patients have experienced complete remission after receiving autologous and allogeneic CART cell infusions, challenges remain, particularly regarding the individual differences in curative efficacy. Further studies are needed based on a well-preserved biospecimen set, including an in-depth systematic review of the available data. It is essential and significant to preserve a small number of live CART cells after patients' infusion and collect other traditional forms of biospecimen, such as DNA and serum, from the cases at different stages of treatment, to establish a biobank of CART biospecimen set. This approach can be achieved through the top design of administrative management by integrating teams from both clinical practice and basic research, thus preventing the omission of important data and improper biospecimen preservation. Establishing a biobank of CART biospecimen set, which contains various types of biospecimen at different stages of treatment and the relevant clinical information, are valuable resources for the long-term follow-up study of prognosis and exploring the underlying mechanisms of individual differences of curative efficacy of CART clinical trials.","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"127 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":"115687324","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":"Betel Nut and Arecoline: Past, Present, and Future Trends","authors":"Z. Kozlakidis, I. Cheong, Hui Wang","doi":"10.36401/iddb-22-05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-22-05","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The areca nut, commonly known as betel nut, has been the subject of consistent scientific study over the past 5 decades. Betel nut is a natural compound chewed for its psychostimulating effects. Arecoline, the primary alkaloid of betel nut, is a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor agonist producing cholinergic effects on the parasympathetic nervous system and a psychoactive agent, contributing to the psycho-stimulating effects. Importantly the betel nut use is also associated with oral leucoplakia, submucous fibrosis, and squamous cell carcinoma. This narrative review explores the past, present, and future aspects of betel nut use, its historical applications, the development of biomarkers research, its health value concerns, and health economic impacts.","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"115 15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126368047","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":"Workshop Proceedings: Informed Consent in Biobanking–from the Key Barriers, Challenges, and Perceptions to Digital Innovations","authors":"D. Ivanova, P. Katsaounis","doi":"10.36401/iddb-21-07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-21-07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"259 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129812058","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":"Highlights from 2022: Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","authors":"Z. Kozlakidis","doi":"10.36401/iddb-22-x4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-22-x4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"38 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132881136","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":"Diversity Control in Early Transcribed ROS/RNS-balancing Genes: A Common Mechanism for Healthy Resilience?","authors":"B. Arnholdt‐Schmitt, Shahid Aziz, J. H. Costa","doi":"10.36401/iddb-22-03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-22-03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131910297","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":"Efficient Rebalancing of ROS Levels in Plants Links to Temporarily Enhanced Aerobic Fermentation, Distinct Cell Restructuration, and Resilience in Field","authors":"B. Arnholdt‐Schmitt, Shahid Aziz, J. H. Costa","doi":"10.36401/iddb-22-02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-22-02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124696667","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}
Zhonglin Qu, Chng Wei Lau, S. Simoff, Paul J. Kennedy, Quang Vinh Nguyen, D. Catchpoole
{"title":"Review of Innovative Immersive Technologies for Healthcare Applications","authors":"Zhonglin Qu, Chng Wei Lau, S. Simoff, Paul J. Kennedy, Quang Vinh Nguyen, D. Catchpoole","doi":"10.36401/iddb-21-04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.36401/iddb-21-04","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Immersive technologies, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR), can connect people using enhanced data visualizations to better involve stakeholders as integral members of the process. Immersive technologies have started to change the research on multidimensional genomic data analysis for disease diagnostics and treatments. Immersive technologies are highlighted in some research for health and clinical needs, especially for precision medicine innovation. The use of immersive technology for genomic data analysis has recently received attention from the research community. Genomic data analytics research seeks to integrate immersive technologies to build more natural human-computer interactions that allow better perception engagements. Immersive technologies, especially VR, help humans perceive the digital world as real and give learning output with lower performance errors and higher accuracy. However, there are limited reviews about immersive technologies used in healthcare and genomic data analysis with specific digital health applications. This paper contributes a comprehensive review of using immersive technologies for digital health applications, including patient-centric applications, medical domain education, and data analysis, especially genomic data visual analytics. We highlight the evolution of a visual analysis using VR as a case study for how immersive technologies step, can by step, move into the genomic data analysis domain. The discussion and conclusion summarize the current immersive technology applications' usability, innovation, and future work in the healthcare domain, and digital health data visual analytics.","PeriodicalId":331225,"journal":{"name":"Innovations in Digital Health, Diagnostics, and Biomarkers","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128064245","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}