The advantages and trends of lactic acid fermentation in the production of innovative fruit puree: Analysis with PROMETHEE and cluster.

The goal of this study was to create a fermented probiotic fruit puree for lactose-intolerant people, vegetarians, and infants over 6 months old. Fermented fruit purees were developed using apples, peaches, and bananas with lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains: Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum (S5), Lactobacillus fermentum strain w8 (S10), and Lactobacillus pentosus strain ml104 (S14).

Detecting cancer metastasis and accompanying protein biomarkers at single cell levels using a 3D-printed microfluidic immunoarray.

A low-cost microfluidic microarray capable of lysing cells and quantifying proteins released after lysis was designed and 3D-printed. The array lyses cells on-chip in lysis buffer augmented with a 2s pulse of a sonic cell disruptor. Detection of desmoglein 3 (DSG3), a metastatic biomarker for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), along with two accompanying HNSCC biomarkers from a single cell lysate of oral cancer cell cultures was demonstrated.

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test for the Determination of Resistant and Susceptible and spp. Using a Multi-Channel Surface Plasmon Resonance Device.

The objective of this study was to investigate the development of a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor platform equipped with multiple channels for the simultaneous determination of methicillin-resistant (MRSA), methicillin-susceptible (MSSA) and vancomycin-resistant (VRE), and vancomycin-susceptible (VSE). Drug resistance of strains against cefoxitin and strains against vancomycin were investigated both using the minimum inhibitory concentration method (MIC) assay and the SPR system equipped with single and multiple channels. The MIC values of MRSA and MSSA ranged from 32 µg/mL to >128 µg/mL and from 1 µg/mL to 4 µg/mL, respectively.