The association between diabetes medication and weight change in a non-surgical weight management intervention: an intervention cohort study.

Aim: To compare weight change in a lifestyle-based weight management programme between participants taking weight-gaining, weight-neutral/loss and mixed diabetes medications.

Methods: Electronic health records for individuals (≥ 18 years) with Type 2 diabetes who had been referred to a non-surgical weight management programme between February 2008 and May 2014 were studied. Diabetes medications were classified into three categories based on their effect on body weight.

Effect of non-surgical weight management on weight and glycaemic control in people with type 2 diabetes: A comparison of interventional and non-interventional outcomes at 3 years.

Aims: To examine the long-term effectiveness of lifestyle weight management interventions, recommended in clinical guidelines for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and obesity.

Materials And Methods: Electronic health records were used to follow 23 208 patients with T2DM and obesity in Glasgow, UK, for up to 3 years between 2005 and 2014. Patients were stratified by referral to and attendance at a lifestyle weight management intervention, and by attainment of a target weight loss of ≥5 kg over 7 to 9 sessions ("successful completers").

High-throughput heterogeneous integration of diverse nanomaterials on a single chip for sensing applications.

There is a large variety of nanomaterials each with unique electronic, optical and sensing properties. However, there is currently no paradigm for integration of different nanomaterials on a single chip in a low-cost high-throughput manner. We present a high throughput integration approach based on spatially controlled dielectrophoresis executed sequentially for each nanomaterial type to realize a scalable array of individually addressable assemblies of graphene, carbon nanotubes, metal oxide nanowires and conductive polymers on a single chip.

Synthesis of pandamarilactone-1.

The first total synthesis of pandamarilactone-1, an alkaloid of Pandanus amaryllifolius, is reported. The nine-step synthesis features furan oxidation with singlet oxygen and then spiro-N,O-acetalization and elimination to generate the natural product and further Pandanus alkaloids, pandamarilactonines A-D.

Kelvin probe microscopy and electronic transport measurements in reduced graphene oxide chemical sensors.

Reduced graphene oxide (RGO) is an electronically hybrid material that displays remarkable chemical sensing properties. Here, we present a quantitative analysis of the chemical gating effects in RGO-based chemical sensors. The gas sensing devices are patterned in a field-effect transistor geometry, by dielectrophoretic assembly of RGO platelets between gold electrodes deposited on SiO2/Si substrates.