Chemically Stable Styrenic Electrospun Membranes with Tailorable Surface Chemistry.

Membranes with tailorable surface chemistry have applications in a wide range of industries. Synthesizing membranes from poly(chloromethyl styrene) directly incorporates an alkyl halide surface-bound initiator which can be used to install functional groups via S2 chemistry or graft polymerization techniques. In this work, poly(chloromethyl styrene) membranes were synthesized through electrospinning.

Prevalence and genotypes' distribution of human papillomavirus in invasive cervical cancer in Saudi Arabia.

Objective: Data concerning HPV infection in cervical cancer are globally lacking in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess HPV prevalence and genotypes' distribution in invasive cervical cancer in our patients to provide baseline information for screening and prevention.

Methods: The study included 100 paraffin-embedded cervical tumors.