(1) Background: Continuous health promotion systems are increasingly important, enabling decentralized patient care, providing comfort, and reducing congestion in healthcare facilities. These systems allow for treatment beyond clinical settings and support preventive monitoring. Wearable systems have become essential tools for health monitoring, but they focus mainly on physiological data, overlooking motor data evaluation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis review synthesizes the findings from 252 studies to explore the relationship between the oral pathogens associated with periodontitis, dental caries, and systemic diseases. Individuals with oral diseases, such as periodontitis, are between 1.7 and 7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe COVID-19 pandemic required residential aged care facilities (RACFs) to meet the high care needs of residents in the context of stringent public health measures and staffing pressures. Given the likelihood of ongoing COVID-19 waves and seasonal surges in acute respiratory infection outbreaks, this study explored RACF staff experiences in providing care while limiting COVID-19 risk. Ten focus groups were conducted across six RACFs in metropolitan and regional New South Wales, Australia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) requires thermal cycling to melt DNA and proceed through the subsequent cycles of DNA synthesis needed for exponential amplification. Previously, we engineered a superhelicase, with enhanced processivity and speed, to replace this traditional PCR melting step with enzymatic DNA unwinding while retaining desired PCR characteristics, such as multi-kb amplicon size and applicability to cloning and gene editing outcome assessment. This isothermal amplification method is named SHARP (SSB-Helicase Assisted Rapid PCR) because single-stranded DNA binding protein (SSB) and superhelicases are added to standard PCR reagents.
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