Validation of a smartphone-compatible MIP-based sensor for bisphenol A determination in wastewater samples.

A handheld smartphone-compatible molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP)-based sensor was developed for the analysis of bisphenol A (BPA) in wastewater samples. Sensing elements based on ethylene glycol methacrylate phosphate (EGMP)-containing MIP films were designed and optimized using molecular dynamics simulations. The highly porous MIP films were synthesized via in situ polymerization, employing a fragment-based approach.

Incidence Rates of Tuberculosis among Children and Adolescents Living in Areas Most Affected by the Chernobyl Disaster.

Background: The Chernobyl accident has attracted the attention of healthcare experts all over the world due to the unprecedented scale of damage the disaster inflicted upon human health.

Objectives: To examine incidence rates of tuberculosis and patterns among children and adolescents living in areas most affected by the Chernobyl disaster between 2004 and 2014.

Methods: The tuberculosis incidence rate was calculated per 100,000 people.

Colorimetric test-systems for creatinine detection based on composite molecularly imprinted polymer membranes.

An easy-to-use colorimetric test-system for the efficient detection of creatinine in aqueous samples was developed. The test-system is based on composite molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) membranes with artificial receptor sites capable of creatinine recognition. A thin MIP layer was created on the surface of microfiltration polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes using method of photo-initiated grafting polymerization.

Catalytic molecularly imprinted polymer membranes: development of the biomimetic sensor for phenols detection.

Portable biomimetic sensor devices for the express control of phenols content in water were developed. The synthetic binding sites mimicking active site of the enzyme tyrosinase were formed in the structure of free-standing molecularly imprinted polymer membranes. Molecularly imprinted polymer membranes with the catalytic activity were obtained by co-polymerization of the complex Cu(II)-catechol-urocanic acid ethyl ester with (tri)ethyleneglycoldimethacrylate, and oligourethaneacrylate.

[Disability in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: prognosis of its onset].

Disability prediction can timely detect the signs of disability in the patient, greatly enhance the quality of sociomedical expert examination. A method for prediction of the onset of disability in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis has been developed on the basis of the correlation-regression analysis of the factors that influence disability. Verification of the efficiency of prediction of disability in control patients has provided evidence for the feasibility of using this method in the work of phthisiologists and experts of medical rehabilitative expert examination commissions.