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In recent years, incidents of pesticide pollution and abuse of feed additives have occurred frequently, which pose a great threat to human health. Raman spectroscopy has become an important method in the field of food safety due to its rapidity, simplicity and sensitivity. It is important to obtain complex structure to promote surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) effect. In this study, gold helical nanoparticles with rich surface structure were synthesized using cysteine as induce agent. Notably, the complex helical structure and tip led to an excellent electromagnetic enhancement property. The helical structure showed ultra-sensitive detection of hazardous molecular, such as thiram and ractopamine. Interestingly, the D/L-Au structure had significant chiral optical activity and could be used as an unlabeled SERS platform for enantiomer identification. This study provided an effective strategy for the detection of pesticides and feed additives, which could be applied in other aspects of food safety in the future.
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Radiology
September 2025
Department of Diagnostic, Molecular, and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Plc, Box 1234, New York, NY 10029.
Background The prognostic value of baseline visual emphysema scoring at low-dose CT (LDCT) in lung cancer screening cohorts is unknown. Purpose To determine whether a single visual emphysema score at LDCT is predictive of 25-year mortality from all causes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Materials and Methods In this prospective cohort study, asymptomatic adults aged 40-85 years with a history of smoking underwent baseline LDCT screening for lung cancer between June 2000 and December 2008.
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September 2025
Department of Hematology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Background: Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based Minimal residual disease (MRD) detection is commonly used for core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia (CBF-AML), but its interpretation in the context of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) remains under discussion.
Method: Using Kyoto Stem Cell Transplantation Group registry data, we included 96 patients who underwent allo-HSCT between 2000 and 2019 for CBF-AML.
Results: To assess MRD, quantitative PCR with GAPDH control was most used.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
September 2025
Grupo de Saneamiento Ambiental, Facultad de Ingeniería, Escuela de Ingeniería de Recursos Naturales y del Ambiente, Universidad del Valle, Calle13 #100-00, 76001, Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
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Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, 103 Wenhua Road Shenhe District, Shenyang, 110016, Liaoning, People's Republic of China.
A novel dual-mode sensing system integrating a magnetic core-shell CuFeO/Cu/MnO nanozyme with a stimuli-responsive agarose-deep eutectic solvent hydrogel (DES-Aga) is reported. The nanozyme exhibits exceptional oxidase-like activity, characterized by a low Michaelis constant (K = 0.14 mM) and high catalytic efficiency (V = 1.
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September 2025
College of Nuclear Technology and Automation Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, Sichuan,P.R.China; Applied Nuclear Technology in Geosciences Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059, P.R.China.
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