Targeting Surface Markers in Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer: Future Directions in Ligand-bound Therapy.

Anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) is the rarest and most aggressive form of thyroid cancer, known for its highly variable nature and poor prognosis, primarily due to the lack of effective treatments. While conventional therapies have had limited success, there remains an urgent need for novel therapeutic approaches to combat this disease. ATC tumors are resistant to the standard radioiodine therapy because they lack the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS), which is necessary for iodine uptake.

Antiviral Susceptibility of Influenza A(H5N1) Clade 2.3.2.1c and 2.3.4.4b Viruses from Humans, 2023-2024.

During 2023-2024, highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses from clade 2.3.2.

PARASITOPHYSIOART: EXPLORING THE INTERSECTION OF ART, PHYSIOLOGY, AND PARASITOLOGY ON STUDENTS´ PERCEPTION AND MOTIVATION.

This study explores the impact of integrating art into the teaching of physiology and parasitology to enhance student engagement, motivation, and perception. Thirty-seven biotechnology students from the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil, enrolled in human physiology and parasitology courses and participated in the innovative ParasitoPhysioart project. The students were tasked with recreating artworks illustrating key parasitology concepts and their physiological effects on the human body.

Enhancing spontaneous biosurfactant production through water steeping of olive mill waste.

This study offers novel and valuable insights into the spontaneous production of biosurfactant extracts from olive mill waste (OMW) through a steeping process with water at 37 °C for 15 days, followed by extraction with ethyl acetate or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). The results showed that steeping process significantly improves the extraction efficiency and produces biosurfactant extracts with more favorable critical micellar concentration (CMC) and wettability properties than those from non-steeped OMW. Under best conditions, it yielded 104.