Detection of S2 vaccine strain by a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method.

Introduction: Brucellosis is a highly prevalent zoonotic disease caused by spp. S2 vaccination is an effective strategy to prevent animal brucellosis. However, S2 induces antibodies against the smooth lipopolysaccharide,making it challenging to distinguish field infected from vaccinated livestock.

Electrochemical metallization cell with solid phase tunable GeSbTe electrolyte.

Electrochemical metallization (ECM) cell kinetics are strongly determined by the electrolyte and can hardly be altered after the cell has been fabricated. Solid-state property tunable electrolytes in response to external stimuli are therefore desirable to introduce additional operational degree of freedom to the ECM cells, enabling novel applications such as multistate memory and reconfigurable computation. In this work, we use GeSbTe(GST) as the electrolyte material whose solid state is switched from the amorphous(a) to the crystalline(c) phase thermally.