Publications by authors named "S Bekaert"
Introduction: Nursing students internationally entered challenging clinical placements during COVID-19. Lessons learnt could inform nurse education planning, particularly in preparation to implement future workforce plans.
Aim: This study aimed to explore the impact of COVID-19 on nursing students undertaking clinical placements across the UK, particularly the extent to which nursing education prior to and during COVID-19 had prepared them for placements, and to distil key messages for future nursing education.
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- Neuroblastoma is a rare cancer found in kids that starts from cells that help develop nerves and is linked to 15% of cancer deaths in children.
- Researchers combined data from multiple studies on neuroblastoma to create a big map of 362,991 cells from 61 patients to learn more about the disease.
- This new cell atlas helps scientists understand how different cell types in the tumor work together and how they relate to treatment outcomes.
Aims: To identify new and accelerated modes of practice used by school nurses during the COVID pandemic. To create a quick reference infographic bringing together experiential evidence on the range and considerations regarding different modes of practice for use by the school nursing community of practice.
Design: A descriptive qualitative secondary data analysis of open-ended questions in a survey, and focus groups with school nurses.
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- Researchers have faced difficulties studying the early development of neural crest cells, which is crucial for understanding diseases like pediatric cancer neuroblastoma.
- To tackle this, they created a model using human pluripotent stem cells to mimic the normal development of sympathoadrenal cells, which can give rise to neuroblastoma.
- The study employed single-cell RNA sequencing to map gene expression changes during this development process, revealing a specific cell subpopulation marked by SOX2 that is associated with genetic mutations linked to neuroblastoma.
Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common cancer in infancy with an urgent need for more efficient targeted therapies. The development of novel (combinatorial) treatment strategies relies on extensive explorations of signaling perturbations in neuroblastoma cell lines, using RNA-Seq or other high throughput technologies (e.g.
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