Long-term tumor suppression in cholangiocarcinoma using cytokine-induced killer cell therapy and high-dose vitamin C: a case report.

This case study explores the effectiveness of autologous cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cell-based immunotherapy in a 49-year-old male patient with inoperable stage IIIb cholangiocarcinoma, characterized by high levels of the sodium-dependent vitamin C transporter-2 (SVCT2) in immune cells. Despite an initial lack of tumor reduction following chemotherapy, the patient showed a significant decrease in tumor markers and stabilization of the tumor after undergoing radiation and proton therapy. Subsequently, CIK cell therapy, combined with high-dose vitamin C, was administered 52 times over 6 years.

Site-selective introduction of MnO co-catalyst onto gold nanocubes via plasmon-induced charge separation and galvanic replacement for enhanced photocatalysis.

For energy harvesting with plasmonic photocatalysis, it is important to optimize geometrical arrangements of plasmonic nanomaterials, electron (or hole) acceptors, and co-catalysts so as to improve the charge separation efficiency and suppress charge recombination. Here, we employ a photocatalytic system with Au nanocubes on TiO and introduce MnO as an oxidation co-catalyst onto the nanocubes via site-selective oxidation based on plasmon-induced charge separation (PICS). However, it has been known that PbO is the only material that can be deposited onto Au nanomaterials through PICS with sufficient site-selectivity.

Escalator: An Autonomous Scheduling Scheme for Convergecast in TSCH.

Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) is widely used in the industrial wireless sensor networks due to its high reliability and energy efficiency. Various timeslot and channel scheduling schemes have been proposed for achieving high reliability and energy efficiency for TSCH networks. Recently proposed autonomous scheduling schemes provide flexible timeslot scheduling based on the routing topology, but do not take into account the network traffic and packet forwarding delays.

Cost-effective and accurate method of measuring fetal fraction using SNP imputation.

Motivation: With the discovery of cell-free fetal DNA in maternal blood, the demand for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) has been increasing. To obtain reliable NIPT results, it is important to accurately estimate the fetal fraction. In this study, we propose an accurate and cost-effective method for measuring fetal fractions using single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).

An Algorithm for Timely Transmission of Solicitation Messages in RPL for Energy-Efficient Node Mobility.

The IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) was proposed for various applications of IPv6 low power wireless networks. While RPL supports various routing metrics and is designed to be suitable for wireless sensor network environments, it does not consider the mobility of nodes. Therefore, there is a need for a method that is energy efficient and that provides stable and reliable data transmission by considering the mobility of nodes in RPL networks.

ReMark: an automatic program for clustering orthologs flexibly combining a Recursive and a Markov clustering algorithms.

Summary: ReMark is a fully automatic tool for clustering orthologs by combining a Recursive and a Markov clustering (MCL) algorithms. The ReMark detects and recursively clusters ortholog pairs through reciprocal BLAST best hits between multiple genomes running software program (RecursiveClustering.java) in the first step.