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

Healthcare Science current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

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June 2025

Academic training pathways in histopathology: practical perspectives

Advances in biosensors: a breakthrough in rapid and precise brucellosis detection

Animal models informing the role of the microbiome and its metabolites in rheumatoid arthritis

Artificial intelligence in haematopathology: current perspective and future directions

Developing AI-powered tools for histopathology: opportunities, challenges and new friends along the way

Diagnostic platforms for snakebite: current approaches and challenges in medically important species

Electrochemical flow injection analysis platforms for biomedical applications – progress and prospects

Entering the era of spatial transcriptomics: opportunities and challenges for pathology

Exploring the diagnostic landscape: portable aptasensors in point-of-care testing

Glycosyltransferase enzymatic assays: overview and comparative analysis

Head and neck mucosal manifestations of microbial infection: clinical presentation, histological features and diagnostic aids

Head and neck tumours with neuroendocrine marker ‘expression’: pitfalls and learning points

Identification and validation of programmed cell death related biomarkers for the treatment and prevention COVID-19

Integrating histopathology and epidemiology to explore cancer aetiology and survival

Macroscopy of oral and maxillofacial specimens

Nanopores for DNA and biomolecule analysis: diagnostic, genomic insights, applications in energy conversion and catalysis

Next-generation electrochemical biosensors for acrylamide: progress, challenges, and opportunities

An overview of biosensor advancements for detecting botulinum neurotoxins: addressing food safety and biowarfare risks

Quantification of amyloid-β aggregation inhibitors gallic acid and rosmarinic acid in biological samples by LC-MS/MS

Recent advancements in aptamers as promising nanotool for therapeutic and diagnostic applications

Spindle cell mesenchymal tumours of the head and neck: emerging and recently described entities characterised by molecular findings

Technical approaches for breath aldehyde biomarker detection and disease diagnosis: a review

Total flavonoid content revised: an overview of past, present, and future determinations in phytochemical analysis

Update on the dataset for histopathological reporting of salivary gland carcinomas: current concepts and controversies in salivary gland pathology

Sources

Analytical Biochemistry (May-Jul); Annals of Medicine (Apr); Diagnostic Histopathology (Apr-May); Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America (May)

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)

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