Nuances of gender affirming therapy for transgender women with spinal cord injury.

Case Description: 56-year-old transgender woman with new spinal cord injury (SCI) on gender affirming hormonal therapy (GAHT) with estrogen and spironolactone.

Findings: After her injury, estrogen and spironolactone were discontinued, for blood clots and hypotension, respectively. Alternative options were explored.

Advantages of holographic imaging through fog.

In this paper, we demonstrate digital holographic imaging through a 27-m-long fog tube filled with ultrasonically generated fog. Its high sensitivity makes holography a powerful technology for imaging through scattering media. With our large-scale experiments, we investigate the potential of holographic imaging for road traffic applications, where autonomous driving vehicles require reliable environmental perception in all weather conditions.

Needs of an uninsured equity-deserving minority patient cohort with physical disabilities during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Patients with disabilities and those from diverse equity-deserving backgrounds have been disproportionately affected by the SARS COV-2 ("COVID-19") pandemic.

Objective: To describe the significant needs and social determinants of health that affected a group of uninsured patients (from equity-deserving groups) with rehabilitation diagnoses during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: Retrospective cohort study utilizing a telephone-based needs assessment from April to October, 2020.

CRISPR/Cas9 mediated gene editing in non-model nematode sp. PS1159.

The phylum Nematoda harbors a huge diversity of species in a broad range of ecosystems and habitats. Nematodes share a largely conserved Bauplan but major differences have been found in early developmental processes. The development of the nematode model organism has been studied in great detail for decades.

LED based large field of view off-axis quantitative phase contrast microscopy by hologram multiplexing.

In this manuscript, we describe the development of a single shot, self-referencing wavefront division, multiplexing digital holographic microscope employing LED sources for large field of view quantitative phase imaging of biological samples. To address the difficulties arising while performing interferometry with low temporally coherent sources, an optical arrangement utilizing multiple Fresnel Biprisms is used for hologram multiplexing, enhancing the field of view and increasing the signal to noise ratio. Biprisms offers the ease of obtaining interference patterns by automatically matching the path length between the two off-axis beams.