Automatic kidney stone identification: an adaptive feature-weighted LSTM model based on urine and blood routine analysis.

Kidney stones are the most common urinary system diseases, and early identification is of great significance. The purpose of this study was to use routine urine and blood detection indices to build a deep learning (DL) model to identify the presence of kidney stones in the early stage. A retrospective analysis was conducted on patients with kidney stones who were treated at West China Hospital of Sichuan University from January 2020 to June 2023.

Significantly Stabilizing Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Induced by Nb-Doping Pt/Co(OH) Nanosheets.

High stability and efficiency of electrocatalysts are crucial for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) toward water splitting in an alkaline media. Herein, a novel nano-Pt/Nb-doped Co(OH) (Pt/NbCo(OH) ) nanosheet is designed and synthesized using water-bath treatment and solvothermal reduction approaches. With nano-Pt uniformly anchored onto NbCo(OH) nanosheet, the synthesized Pt/NbCo(OH) shows outstanding electrocatalytic performances for alkaline HER, achieving a high stability for at least 33 h, a high mass activity of 0.

Automatic medical specialty classification based on patients' description of their symptoms.

In China, patients usually determine their medical specialty before they register the corresponding specialists in the hospitals. This process usually requires a lot of medical knowledge for the patients. As a result, many patients do not register the correct specialty for the first time if they do not receive help from the hospitals.

A target-initiated autocatalytic 3D DNA nanomachine for high-efficiency amplified detection of MicroRNA.

Considering the challenges of generating simple and efficient DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) nanomachines for sensitive bioassays and the great potential of target-induced self-cycling catalytic systems, herein, a novel autocatalytic three-dimensional (3D) DNA nanomachine was constructed based on cross-catalytic hairpin assembly on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to generate self-powered efficient cyclic amplification. Typically, the DNA hairpins H1, H2, H3 and H4 were immobilized onto AuNPs first. In the presence of target microRNA-203a, the 3D DNA nanomachines were triggered to activate a series of CHA (catalytic hairpin assembly) reactions.

3D matrixed DNA self-nanocatalyzer as electrochemical sensitizers for ultrasensitive investigation of DNA 5-methylcytosine.

DNA methylation plays an important role in a variety of human diseases. Thus, accurately analyze 5-methylcytosine in different DNA segments is of great significance. Herein, we proposed a novel 3D matrixed DNA self-nanocatalyzer via gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) supporting DNA self-hybridization with hemin as biomimetic enzyme and methylene blue (MB) as electrochemical mediator, which was employed as an efficient electrochemical sensitizer for the ultrasensitive bioassay of DNA 5-methylcytosine.

Hydrophobic-Driven Electrochemiluminescence Enhancement Target-Induced Self-Enrichment for Ultrasensitive Bioassay.

Considering the central challenge of the simple and efficient strategy to generate sensitive analysis technology, herein, we proposed a novel electrochemiluminescence (ECL) strategy based on target-induced self-enrichment hydrophobic interaction to generate significant ECL enhancement for untrasensitive detection of clinical biomarkers with cardiac troponin I (cTnI) for early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) as a model. Typically, the first antibody of cTnI (fAb) was immobilized onto the as-prepared electrode surface with the titanium dioxide nanoflower and gold nanoclusters When there was target cTnI, it could be captured onto the electrode surface based on the specific antigen-antibody interaction to furtherly capture cholesterol-modified second antibody of cTnI to increase the hydrophobicity of the electrode surface, which could be employed for the self-enrichment of hydrophobic ECL luminophore, tris(2,2'-bipyridyl-4,4'-dicarboxylato) ruthenium(II), and coreactant, tripropylamine in the detection solution. Thus, an increased ECL emission could be achieved due to the increased concentration of ECL luminophore and coreactant, which was quantitatively related with the concentration of target cTnI.