Publications by authors named "Shanmugam Vignesh"

The electrocatalytic oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER and HER) are key processes used in energy storage and conversion. We have developed a highly efficient MnCoO nanostructure anchored with functionalized carbon black (MnCoO/f-CB), which has been characterized by XRD, FT-IR, Raman spectra, FE-SEM, and HR-TEM analyses as robust bifunctional electrocatalysts for both HER and OER. At a characteristic 10 mA cm current density, the MnCoO/f-CB composite ECs exhibit low overpotentials of 330 mV for OER and 360 mV for HER, respectively.

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Follicular lymphoma (FL) is the second most common type of lymphoma (20% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas), derived from germinal centre (GC) B cells, and is characterised by its significant clinical, prognostic and biological heterogeneity, leading to complexity in management. Despite significant biological investigation and indisputable clinical progress since the advent of the immunotherapy era more than 20 years ago, much remains to be done to understand and cure this lymphoma. Today, FL is metaphorically a giant puzzle on the table with patches of sky, landscape and foliage clearly appearing.

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In the past two decades, genomics has advanced significantly, with single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) marking a pivotal milestone. ScRNA-seq provides unparalleled insights into cellular diversity and has spurred diverse studies across multiple conditions and samples, resulting in an influx of complex multidimensional genomics data. This highlights the need for robust methodologies capable of handling the complexity and multidimensionality of such genomics data.

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  • Society faces the challenge of reducing energy use and environmental damage, particularly from industries causing water pollution, such as textile and pharmaceuticals.* -
  • The study demonstrates that a novel photocatalyst made from a g-CN, WO, and VO composite effectively degrades methylene blue dye, achieving approximately 97% degradation.* -
  • The improved performance of this composite is due to the combined effects of its components, which enhance stability and reduce charge recombination, making it suitable for visible light photocatalysis.*
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The study presents AgCrO/FeO/CeO ternary nanocomposite, based on FeO/CeO binary composites, which demonstrated excellent photocatalytic performance in the photodegradation of methylene blue under solar irradiation. The AgCrO/FeO/CeO nanocomposites was orthorhombic, ilmenite, and cubic-fluorite phases of AgCrO, FeO, and CeO, respectively, according to the XRD examination. A strong bond between AgCrO, FeO, and CeO within the nanocomposite was demonstrated by the SEM and TEM investigations.

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In this study, a highly efficient CoFeO-anchored g-CN nanocomposite with Z-scheme photocatalyst was developed by facile calcination and hydrothermal technique. To evaluate the crystalline structure, sample surface morphology, elemental compositions, and charge conductivity of the as-synthesized catalysts by various characterization techniques. The high interfacial contact of CoFeO nanoparticles (NPs) with g-CN nanosheets reduced the optical bandgap from 2.

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Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL) is a tumor composed of rare malignant Hodgkin and Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells nested within a T-cell rich inflammatory immune infiltrate. cHL is associated with Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) in 25% of cases. The specific contributions of EBV to the pathogenesis of cHL remain largely unknown, in part due to technical barriers in dissecting the tumor microenvironment (TME) in high detail.

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Aims: Liquid biopsy (LBx)-based next-generation sequencing (NGS) of circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) can facilitate molecular profiling of haematopoietic neoplasms (HNs), particularly when tissue-based NGS is infeasible.

Methods And Results: We studied HN LBx samples tested with FoundationOne Liquid CDx, FoundationOne Liquid, or FoundationACT between July 2016 and March 2022. We identified 271 samples: 89 non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), 43 plasma-cell neoplasm (PCN), 41 histiocytoses, 27 myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), 25 diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), 22 myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), 14 Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), and 10 acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).

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Highly multiplexed protein imaging is emerging as a potent technique for analyzing protein distribution within cells and tissues in their native context. However, existing cell annotation methods utilizing high-plex spatial proteomics data are resource intensive and necessitate iterative expert input, thereby constraining their scalability and practicality for extensive datasets. We introduce MAPS (Machine learning for Analysis of Proteomics in Spatial biology), a machine learning approach facilitating rapid and precise cell type identification with human-level accuracy from spatial proteomics data.

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Recent technological innovations have enabled the high-throughput quantification of gene expression and epigenetic regulation within individual cells, transforming our understanding of how complex tissues are constructed. However, missing from these measurements is the ability to routinely and easily spatially localize these profiled cells. We developed a strategy, Slide-tags, in which single nuclei within an intact tissue section are tagged with spatial barcode oligonucleotides derived from DNA-barcoded beads with known positions.

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  • - The study analyzed skin and blood/bone marrow samples from 17 patients with various cutaneous neoplasms, primarily focusing on cutaneous acute myeloid leukemia (c-AML) and different types of dendritic cell neoplasms.
  • - A significant finding was that many c-AML patients had shared clonal mutations between their skin and bone marrow, with 70% also showing mutations like NPM1 and KMT2A rearrangements.
  • - The results indicate that cutaneous and myeloid neoplasms share common genetic mutations, enhancing the understanding of the relationship between these skin manifestations and underlying blood disorders.
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Highly multiplexed protein imaging is emerging as a potent technique for analyzing protein distribution within cells and tissues in their native context. However, existing cell annotation methods utilizing high-plex spatial proteomics data are resource intensive and necessitate iterative expert input, thereby constraining their scalability and practicality for extensive datasets. We introduce MAPS (Machine learning for Analysis of Proteomics in Spatial biology), a machine learning approach facilitating rapid and precise cell type identification with human-level accuracy from spatial proteomics data.

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The CoO/g-CN Z-scheme composite heterojunction has been effectively built in a facile sonication-assisted hydrothermal manner. The as-synthesized optimal 0.2 M CoO/g-CN (GCO2) composite photocatalysts (PCs) revealed admirable degradation efficiency towards methyl orange (MO, 65.

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  • Tumours typically develop from harmful changes in specific cell groups within the same area of the body, with this study focusing on a rare type of acute leukaemia called blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) that often begins in the skin.
  • Researchers utilized advanced techniques to show that BPDCN originates from mutated blood cell precursors in the bone marrow, which have been affected by UV radiation exposure in sunlit areas of the skin.
  • The study highlights that UV damage can precede further mutations that lead to cancer, pointing to a role for the TET2 gene in resisting UV-induced cell death, thus highlighting how environmental factors influence the progression of cancer.
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This current study aims to develop a unique biomaterial that can fight against oxidative stress and microbial infections without causing any harm. As a result, an easy-to-make, environment-friendly, long-lasting, and non-toxic copper oxide nanoparticle (CuONP) was synthesized using an edible mushroom Pleurotus citrinopileatus extract. The UV-vis spectroscopy analyses reflected a sharp absorbance peak at 250 nm.

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  • The study focuses on developing new photocatalytic composites using a Z-scheme design, specifically VO/g-CN, to effectively remove dyes from wastewater.
  • The best-performing composite achieved a dye degradation efficiency of 90.1% for methylene blue, significantly outperforming traditional GCN catalysts by 6.18 times.
  • The improved photocatalytic activity is attributed to the efficient interaction between the components, which enhances charge separation and increases the material's ability to utilize visible light for environmental cleanup.
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Recent technological innovations have enabled the high-throughput quantification of gene expression and epigenetic regulation within individual cells, transforming our understanding of how complex tissues are constructed. Missing from these measurements, however, is the ability to routinely and easily spatially localise these profiled cells. We developed a strategy, Slide-tags, in which single nuclei within an intact tissue section are 'tagged' with spatial barcode oligonucleotides derived from DNA-barcoded beads with known positions.

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Among different types of semiconductor photocatalysts, MoS hybridized with graphitic carbon heterojunction has developed the most promising "celebrity" due to its static chemical properties, suitable band structure, and facile synthesis. Physiochemical and surface characterizations were revealed with structural, electronic, and optical analysis. Diffused reflectance spectroscopy evidenced the energy band gap tailoring from 2.

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T cells mediate antigen-specific immune responses to disease through the specificity and diversity of their clonotypic T cell receptors (TCRs). Determining the spatial distributions of T cell clonotypes in tissues is essential to understanding T cell behavior, but spatial sequencing methods remain unable to profile the TCR repertoire. Here, we developed Slide-TCR-seq, a 10-μm-resolution method, to sequence whole transcriptomes and TCRs within intact tissues.

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A central problem in spatial transcriptomics is detecting differentially expressed (DE) genes within cell types across tissue context. Challenges to learning DE include changing cell type composition across space and measurement pixels detecting transcripts from multiple cell types. Here, we introduce a statistical method, cell type-specific inference of differential expression (C-SIDE), that identifies cell type-specific DE in spatial transcriptomics, accounting for localization of other cell types.

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The g-CN/TiO nanocomposites (NCs) are fabricated by optimization of calcination and subsequent hydrothermal technique decorated with CeO nanoparticles (NPs) to build the g-CN/TiO-CeO hybrid NCs. The chemical and surface characterizations of structural, morphological, elemental composition, optical, photo-degradation, HER performance and the DFT computation has been efficiently analyzed. The g-CN/TiO-CeO composite photocatalysts (PCs) exhibit photocatalytic improved performance (∼97 %) for MB aqueous dye related to pristine g-CN and g-CN/TiO composite PCs.

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