Universal and Versatile Magnetic Connectors for Microfluidic Devices.

World-to-chip interfacing remains a critical issue for microfluidic devices. Current solutions to connect tubing to rigid microfluidic chips remain expensive, laborious, or require specialized skills and precision machining. Here, we report reusable, inexpensive, and easy-to-use connectors that enable monitoring of the connection ports.

Evaluation of hearing in pediatric familial Mediterranean fever patients during attack period and attack-free period.

Objectives: Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common monogenic autoinflammatory disease worldwide. It usually has a childhood onset and is characterized with recurrent attacks with irregular intervals. Few studies have been performed to investigate hearing in FMF patients ran with various tests and showed different results.

Assessment of Artemisinin Contents in Selected Species from Tajikistan (Central Asia).

Central Asia is the center of origin and diversification of the genus. The genus is known to possess a rich phytochemical diversity. Artemisinin is the shining example of a phytochemical isolated from , which is widely used in the treatment of malaria.

Parapharyngeal giant ganglioneuroma with multifocal bone involvement in a pediatric female patient.

Ganglioneuroma is a rare benign tumor that originates from neural crest. Tumor tends to be slow growing, asymptomatic but can cause symptoms because of pressure to neighboring structures. In the head and neck region they are relatively rarely seen.

A rare location of angiofibroma in the inferior turbinate in young woman.

Introduction Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma is a rare benign neoplasm in the nasopharynx. The tumor tends to be locally aggressive and is typically seen in adolescent boys. Extranasopharyngeal angiofibromas have been reported sporadically in the literature.

[Structural and functional changing induced by exposure to adaptive doses of X-rays in the human lymphocytes both normal and defective by reparation of DNA double strands breaks].

In the present work it is shown that the phenomenon of interphase chromosome centromeric region displacement, earlier revealed by the authors, is not realized in G0-lymphocytes with heterozygous BRCA1/2 gene mutations. The role of these genes in DNA double strand break (DSB) reparation is known. It is concluded that chromosome locus displacement is necessary for DSB repair, at least in the process of homologous recombination.

[Potential relationship between mutation process induced by low doses of ionizing radiation, and positional dynamics of chromosomes in nuclei of eukaryotic cells].

The mutation process has many stages. The information presented in this article suggest that a cell exposed to low LET radiation in the low-dose range (up to 1 cGy) must almost completely repair all spontaneous and radiation-induced DNA lesions. But reparation of DNA double-stranded breaks (DSB), which are the basis of genome instability has peculiarity.