Electrostatic charged nanofiber filter for filtering airborne novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and nano-aerosols.

The World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as a pandemic on March 12, 2020. Within four months since outbreak in December 2019, over 2.6 million people have been infected across 210 countries around the globe with over 180,000 deaths.

Numerical Investigation of Cell Encapsulation for Multiplexing Diagnostic Assays Using Novel Centrifugal Microfluidic Emulsification and Separation Platform.

In the present paper, we report a novel centrifugal microfluidic platform for emulsification and separation. Our design enables encapsulation and incubation of multiple types of cells by droplets, which can be generated at controlled high rotation speed modifying the transition between dripping-to-jetting regimes. The droplets can be separated from continuous phase using facile bifurcated junction design.

A comparison between electromyography-driven robot and passive motion device on wrist rehabilitation for chronic stroke.

Background: The effect of using robots to improve motor recovery has received increased attention, even though the most effective protocol remains a topic of study.

Objective: . The objective was to compare the training effects of treatments on the wrist joint of subjects with chronic stroke with an interactive rehabilitation robot and a robot with continuous passive motion.

Deep proteome profiling of sera from never-smoked lung cancer patients.

Previous studies on the serum proteome are hampered by the huge dynamic range of concentration of different protein species. The use of Equalizer Beads coupled with a combinatorial library of ligands has been shown to allow access to many low-abundance proteins or polypeptides undetectable by classical analytical methods. This study focused on never-smoked lung cancer, which is considered to be more homogeneous and distinct from smoking-related cases both clinically and biologically.