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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Healthcare Science

Healthcare Science current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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April 2025

3D extrusion bioprinting of microbial inks for biomedical applications

3D printing in musculoskeletal interface engineering: current progress and future directions

Advancing tumor microenvironment and lymphoid tissue research through 3D bioprinting and biofabrication

Application of photosensitive microalgae in targeted tumor therapy

Beyond the EPR effect: intravital microscopy analysis of nanoparticle drug delivery to tumors

Breaking barriers in targeted therapy: advancing exosome isolation, engineering, and imaging

Calcification in breast histopathology

Capacitive biosensor for rapid detection of avian (H5N1) influenza and E. coli in aerosols

Current issues in optical monitoring of drug delivery via hair follicles

Dissection of type 2 diabetes: a genetic perspective

Droplet-based 3D bioprinting for drug delivery and screening

Expanded newborn screening using genome sequencing for early actionable conditions

Fluorescence lifetime imaging in drug delivery research

Histopathological diagnosis of psoriasis and psoriasiform dermatitides

Histopathological differential diagnosis of nail psoriasis and onychomycosis

The histopathological spectrum of sebaceous tumours: key features, diagnostic criteria and differential diagnosis

Insights into salivary gland-like breast carcinomas: histological features, immunophenotypes, molecular pathogenesis and diagnostic advancements

Intra-tumoral bacteria in breast cancer and intervention strategies

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for monitoring drug delivery: unlocking the developmental phases of embryos

Lymphatic transport in anti-tumor immunity and metastasis

Malignant cutaneous clear cell tumours: a review of histological, immunohistochemical and molecular features

Metastasis to and from the breast: a guide to differential diagnosis and ancillary testing

Microbiome research in autoimmune and immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: lessons, advances and unmet needs

Oral, vaginal, and stool microbial signatures in patients with endometriosis as potential diagnostic non-invasive biomarkers: a prospective cohort study

Recent advances in 3D bioprinted neural models: a systematic review on the applications to drug discovery

Recent advances in biomarkers for senescence: bridging basic research to clinic

Recent focus in non-SELEX-computational approach for de novo aptamer design: a mini review

Seeing through the skin: optical methods for visualizing transdermal drug delivery with microneedles

Use of digital pathology and artificial intelligence (AI) in breast cancer diagnosis and management: opportunities and challenges

Visualizing kinetics of diffusional penetration in tissues using OCT-based strain imaging

Sources

ACS Sensors (Feb); Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Feb-Apr); Analytical Biochemistry (Apr); Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (Jan); BJOG (Feb); Diagnostic Histopathology (Feb-Mar); Geriatrics and Gerontology International (Feb); JAMA (Jan); Journal of Experimental Medicine (Feb); Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, The (Feb)

February 2025

3D printing of drug delivery systems enhanced with micro/nano-technology

The application of different biotechnologies in detecting the changes in MAM and their classic discoveries

Biopharmaceutical drug delivery and phototherapy using protein crystals

CAR T cells and T-cell therapies for cancer: a translational science review

Chaotic (bio)printing in the context of drug delivery systems

Comparison of the techniques for isolating immunoassay-suitable proteins from heterogeneous fecal samples

Delivery and kinetics of immersion optical clearing agents in tissues: optical imaging from ex vivo to in vivo

Development of an assay to quantify tranexamic acid levels in plasma

Drug delivery using gold nanoparticles

The effect of sample site and collection procedure on identification of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Extracellular vesicles versus lipid nanoparticles for the delivery of nucleic acids

A history of forensic neuropathology

Infectious disease pathology in the nervous system: diagnostic problems

Integrated modeling of biomarkers, survival and safety in clinical oncology drug development

Integrated pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic and agent-based modelling in drug development: current status and future perspectives

Investigating drugs of abuse at autopsy

Model-informed precision dosing: state of the art and future perspectives

Nanoparticle-assisted plasmonic sensors: recent developments in clinical applications

Norovirus detection technologies: from conventional methods to innovative biosensors

A practical approach to ophthalmic tumour pathology

Research progress on Drug-Target Interactions in the last five years

Survey of chemical unfolding complexity as a unique stability assessment assay for monoclonal antibodies

A systematic overview of strategies for photosensitizer and light delivery in antibacterial photodynamic therapy for lung infections

Update on the classification and diagnostic approach of pituitary neuroendocrine tumours

Sources

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Dec-Jan); Analytical Biochemistry (Feb-Mar); Cochrane Library (Dec); Diagnostic Histopathology (Dec-Jan); JAMA (Dec)

December 2024

Analytical and drug delivery strategies for short peptides: from manufacturing to market

Anti-VEGFR2 neutralising antibody slows the progression of multistep oral carcinogenesis

Application of DNA- and RNA-based sequencing techniques to tumour tissue samples in the clinical laboratory

Artificial intelligence and digital pathology: where are we now and what are the implementation barriers?

Assessment of DNA quality for whole genome library preparation

Basic strategies for monitoring lipase activity: a review

Blood biomarkers to detect Alzheimer disease in primary care and secondary care

Carbon nanomaterial-based aptasensors for rapid detection of foodborne pathogenic bacteria

Changes in Alzheimer disease blood biomarkers and associations with incident all-cause dementia

The changing face of HIV pathology: a personal perspective

Dissecting the immune infiltrate of primary luminal B-like breast carcinomas in relation to age

The downstream purification of bispecific antibodies

Exploring the molecular landscape of cutaneous mixed tumors characterized by TRPS1::PLAG1 gene fusion

Genomic analysis defines distinct pancreatic and neuronal subtypes of lung carcinoid

A histopathological approach to diagnosis and classification of invasive fungal infections

Histopathological assessment for opportunistic infections in the iatrogenically immunosuppressed

Immunohistochemistry for prediction of response to immunotherapy

Infectious diseases of the male and female urogenital tract: a review of the histology of selected entities

Laboratory‐based molecular test alternatives to RT‐PCR for the diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Molecular testing of gastrointestinal tumours

An overview of infectious disease laboratory methods: an update for the histopathologist

Photoelectrochemical biosensors: prospects of graphite carbon nitride-based sensors in prostate-specific antigen diagnosis

Recent applications of three-dimensional bioprinting in drug discovery and development

RNA-loaded nanoparticles for the treatment of hematological cancers

Urea biosensors based in zeolites and chalcogenide-oxide semiconductor thin films as active materials: a review

Sources

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Nov); Analytical Biochemistry (Dec-Jan); Cochrane Library (Oct-Nov); Diagnostic Histopathology (Oct-Nov); JAMA (Oct); Journal of Pathology (Nov-Dec)

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