Over 100-1000 microbial species reside in the human gut, where they predominantly influence the host's internal environment and, thus, have a significant impact on host health. Probiotics are best characterized as a microbe or a group of microbes that reside in the gut and support the body's internal microbiota. Probiotics are linked to increased health advantages, including better immune function, improved nutritional absorption, and protection against cancer and heart-related illnesses. Several studies have demonstrated that combining probiotics from different strains with complementary activities may have synergistic advantages and aid in re-establishing the equilibrium of how immunological niches and microorganisms interact. Another thing to remember is that even though a product contains more probiotic strains, that doesn't always guarantee that the health benefits will be more significant. For specific combinations to be justified, there must be clinical proof. The clinical results of a probiotic strain are specifically pertinent to the participants in the relevant research, such as studies on adults or newborn infants. Clinical outcomes of a probiotic strain are mainly connected to the investigated health area (such as gut health, immune health, oral health, etc.). As a result, picking the right probiotic is essential yet tricky because of several factors, including probiotic products with the disease and strain-specific effectiveness exists; however, various probiotic strains have diverse modes of action. The current review focuses on probiotic categorization, their function in enhancing human health, and any potential health benefits of probiotic combinations.
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In the context of Chinese clinical texts, this paper aims to propose a deep learning algorithm based on Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers (BERT) to identify privacy information and to verify the feasibility of our method for privacy protection in the Chinese clinical context. We collected and double-annotated 33,017 discharge summaries from 151 medical institutions on a municipal regional health information platform, developed a BERT-based Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Model (BiLSTM) and Conditional Random Field (CRF) model, and tested the performance of privacy identification on the dataset. To explore the performance of different substructures of the neural network, we created five additional baseline models and evaluated the impact of different models on performance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe 18 Workshop on Recent Issues in Bioanalysis (18 WRIB) took place in San Antonio, TX, USA on May 6-10, 2024. Over 1100 professionals representing pharma/biotech companies, CROs, and multiple regulatory agencies convened to actively discuss the most current topics of interest in bioanalysis. The 18 WRIB included 3 Main Workshops and 7 Specialized Workshops that together spanned 1 week to allow an exhaustive and thorough coverage of all major issues in bioanalysis of biomarkers, immunogenicity, gene therapy, cell therapy and vaccines.
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