Publications by authors named "T W Leow"

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  • The systematic review included 13 studies with 1,131 participants, showing that Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) significantly reduced depressive and PTSD symptoms, with medium effect sizes.
  • MBSR also improved mindfulness in veterans, with some treatment effects maintained at follow-up for depression and mindfulness, though not for PTSD symptoms.
  • There were no notable differences in outcomes between MBSR and other therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy or person-centered group therapy.
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Hot springs are known to harbor potentially unique microorganisms due to the extreme temperatures in which they thrive and their biotechnologically important enzymes that are active at high temperature, which are beneficial for various industries. Sabah, Malaysia, houses several hot springs, yet knowledge of their microbiological diversity remains limited. Here, the raw sequence data of bacterial communities in a hot spring through metagenomic analysis are revealed.

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Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) have unique features to sustain life in sub-zero environments due to ice recrystallization inhibition (IRI) and thermal hysteresis (TH). AFPs are in demand as agents in cryopreservation, but some antifreeze proteins have low levels of activity. This research aims to improve the cryopreservation activity of an AFPIV.

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A histidine acid phosphatase (HAP) (PhySc) with 99.50% protein sequence similarity with PHO5 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was expressed functionally with the molecular mass of ∼110 kDa through co-expression along with the set of molecular chaperones dnaK, dnaJ, GroESL. The purified HAP illustrated the optimum activity of 28.

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Over the past few decades, cancer immunotherapy has experienced a significant revolution due to the advancements in immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and adoptive cell therapies (ACTs), along with their regulatory approvals. In recent times, there has been hope in the effectiveness of cancer vaccines for therapy as they have been able to stimulate de novo T-cell reactions against tumor antigens. These tumor antigens include both tumor-associated antigen (TAA) and tumor-specific antigen (TSA).

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