Recent developments in biomedicine fields for laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) can be used to determine solid, liquid, colloi-dal, and biological samples. It is a promising technique for analysis and characterization of the composition of a broad variety of objects. This review describes in brief the basic prin-ciples and technological aspects of LIBS, and the most recent progress of the various ap-plications of this technique in biomedicine fields will be reviewed in detail, including bio-aerosols detection and identification, tis-sue analysis, mineral analysis in human body, and detection of zinc in human skin. Finally new approaches and the prospects in bio-medicine fields of LIBS technique are de-scribed.

Physical scientists research biomedicine: a call for caution

It is noticeable that nowadays there are more and more scientists with physical science or engineering background working on or started to work on biomedical projects, but rarely vice versa. This reflects the multi-discipline nature of some projects, however, also at least partially can be explained that biomedical research is seen as trendy, fundable, and likely to get more citations and with results more publishable in high impact journals （1,2）. It is also apparent with some publications and lectures that not all these physical scientists/engineers are well-prepared to work on projects which do not align with their own expertise. Some studies are against very basic principles of pharmacology or biology, while others try to solve medical problems which do not exist clinically. I reviewed a number of submissions including a few from prestigious American universities to Nature journals which made no sense with the study design. Much of manpower and financial resource are being wasteful spent. There are also examples of clinical trials which were ill-planned right from the start and in the end only causing much inconvenience to patients to say at the least. In addition, ample examples exist where experienced physical scientists worked with inexperienced medical scientists and resulted in avoidable failures.

A Metric Approach to Hot Topics in Biomedicine via Keyword Co-occurrence

Purpose:To reveal the research hotpots and relationship among three research hot topics in b iomedicine,namely CRISPR,iPS(induced Pluripotent Stem)cell and Synthetic biology.Design/methodology/approach:We set up their keyword co-occurrence networks with using three indicators and information visualization for metric analysis.Findings:The results reveal the main research hotspots in the three topics are different,but the overlapping keywords in the three topics indicate that they are mutually integrated and interacted each other.Research limitations:All analyses use keywords,without any other forms.Practical implications:We try to find the information distribution and structure of these three hot topics for revealing their research status and interactions,and for promoting biomedical developments.Originality/value:We chose the core keywords in three research hot topics in biomedicine by using h-index.

Data Mining in Biomedicine: Current Applications and Further Directions for Research

Data mining is the process of finding the patterns, associations or relationships among data using different analytical techniques involving the creation of a model and the concluded result will become useful information or knowledge. The advancement of the new medical deceives and the database management systems create a huge number of data-bases in the biomedicine world. Establishing a methodology for knowledge discovery and management of the large amounts of heterogeneous data has become a major priority of research. This paper introduces some basic data mining techniques, unsupervised learning and supervising learning, and reviews the application of data mining in biomedicine. Applications of the multimedia mining, including text, image, video and web mining are discussed. The key issues faced by the computing professional, medical doctors and clinicians are highlighted. We also state some foreseeable future developments in the field. Although extracting useful information from raw biomedical data is a challenging task, data mining is still a good area of scientific study and remains a promising and rich field for research.

Information for Authors Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

GENERALAsian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine(APJTB)is administrated by Hainan Medical University and sponsored by Asian Pacific Tropical Medicine Press and aims to set up an acdemic communicating platform for Chinese and scientists all over the world on tropical biomedicine and related sciences.

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

APJTB Monthly Aims&Scope Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine (APJTB) is administrated by Hainan Medical University and sponsored by Hainan Medical University Journal Publisher, and aims to establish an international academic communicating platform for researchers of tropical biomedicine and public health workers, especially specialists and scholars of the Asian Pacific region and worldwide on

Biosensors: Types, features, and application in biomedicine

Fast and precise diagnostic techniques are required for the treatment of many disorders.Biosensors are one of the diagnostic devices that are applicable in biological and medical sciences.Biosensors could be utilized to recognize biological molecules with high sensitivity.Biosensors are consisted of different components and have different types.Each type of biosensor is used in a particular field according to its specific features.Nanobodies are a novel class of antibodies with small size,high affinity,and specificity to their target.The unique properties of nanobodies make them appropriate tools for diagnostic applications.In this paper,we review biosensors,and their features and roles in medicine.Antibody/nanobody-based biosensors are also specifically discussed.

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine Aims & Scope

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine(APJTB)is administrated by Hainan Medical University and sponsored by Asian Pacific Tropical Medicine Press,and aims to establish an international academic communicating platform for researchers of tropical biomedicine and public health workers,especially specialists and scholars of the Asian Pacific region and worldwide on tropical biomedicine research,to prevent and control the prevalence of global tropical disease.

Editorial: Plasma biomedicine

Since the 1990s,cold atmospheric plasmas(CAPs)have contracted much attention of researchers and engineers in the world,and have obtained dramatic development.One of the reasons comes from their intrinsic features,for example,all the CAPs can operate in an open environment,and the gas temperatures are close to the room temperature.Such range of pressure and temperature coincides

Recommendation letter for Asian pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine(APJTB)

Our world has demonstrated to he extremely vulnerable.Numerous humanitarian missions in developing countries have revealed the monstrous devastation caused by tropical diseases and malnutrition.Paradoxically,the people in charge of the political decisions always seem to be far from recognizing this situation when facing the monstrous dose of reality of the transmissible diseases that have predilection for the people in disadvantage.

Synthesis Design and Research Progress of MOF Materials in Biomedicine

Compared with traditional materials,metal-organic framework materials(MOFs)have the characteristics of drug release controllability,degradability,designability and adjustability of composition and structure,excellent load capacity,and designability and adjustability of channel shape and size,and have shown a wide range of application value in the field of biomedicine.In this paper,based on the structural characteristics of MOFs,the synthetic design of MOF materials was expounded,and the research achievements of MOF materials in biomedicine in recent years were reviewed.

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

APJTB Monthly Aims&Scope Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine(APJTB)is administrated by Hainan Medical University and sponsored by Asian Pacific Tropical Medicine Press,and aims to establish an international academic communicating platform for researchers of tropical biomedicine and public health workers,especially specialists and scholars of the Asian Pacific region and worldwide on tropical biomedicine research,to prevent and control the prevalence of global tropical disease.

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

APJTB MonthlyAims&Scope Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine(APJTB)is administrated by Hainan Medical University and sponsored by Asian Pacific Tropical Medicine Press,and aims to establish an international academic communicating platform for researchers of tropical biomedicine and public health workers,especially specialists and scholars of the

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine

APJTB MonthlyAims&Scope Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine(APJTB)aims to set up and provide an international academic communication platform for physicians,medical scientists,allied health scientists and public health workers,especially those in the Asian Pacific region and worldwide on tropical biomedicine,infectious diseases and public health,and to meet the growing

Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine APJTB Bimonthly

Aims & Scope Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine(APJTB)aims to set up and provide an international academic communication platform for physicians,medical scientists,allied health scientists and public health workers,especially those in the Asian Pacific region and worldwide on tropical biomedicine,infectious diseases and public health,and to meet the growing challenges of understanding,preventing and controUing the dramatic global emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases in the Asian Pacific region.

Nanomaterials in Biomedicine

Nowadays, nanomaterials have become an emerging field that has shown great promise in the development of novel diagnostic, imaging and therapeutic agents for a variety of diseases, including cancer, due to their nanoscale size effects and increased surface area. In comparison to their larger counterparts, nanomaterials have unique physicochemical and biological properties including size, shape, chemical composition, surface structure and charge, aggregation and agglomeration, and solubility which can affect their interactions with biomolecules and cells. Nanoparticles (NPs) with size-tunable light emission have demonstrated an impressive potential as high-efficiency delivery transporters for biomolecules into cells, being used to produce exceptional images of tumor sites. Moreover, NPs delivery system has been widely applied in pharmaceutical field to enhance absorption of bioactive compounds since they can interact with several phytochemicals by hydrogen bonds and hydrophobic interactions to encapsulate these phytochemicals in NPs and thus enhance aqueous solubility of the chemicals. Moreover, NPs also can prevent against oxidation/degradation of the phytochemicals encapsulated in the gastrointestinal tract and can be taken directly up by epithelial cells in the small intestine resulting in the increase of absorption and bioavailability of phytochemicals. In general, there are two specific fields of utilization of intrinsically active NPs as pharmacologic agents including oxidative-related pathologies and cancer. On the other hand, Redox active NPs have been shown to ameliorate many clinically relevant pathological disorders that implicate oxidative stress, reducing the oxidative burden and alleviating many important symptoms. Such NPs act either in a catalytic way resembling the action of antioxidant enzymes such as catalase and superoxide dismutase, or as activating surfaces to facilitate reactions between the aqueous environment and the reactive oxygen species present at high level in the pathological tissues.

Biomass-derived carbon dots with pharmacological activity for biomedicine:Recent advances and future perspectives

Carbon dots(CDs),a type of nanoparticle with excellent optical properties,good biocompatibility,and small size,are finding increasing application across the fields of biology and biomedicine.In recent years,biomass-derived CDs with pharmacological activity(BP-CDs)derived from herbal medicines(HMs),HMs extracts and other natural products with demonstrated pharmaceutical activity have attracted particular attention.Herein,we review recent advances in the development of BP-CDs,covering the selection of biomass precursors,different methods used for the synthesis of BP-CDs from natural sources,and the purification of BP-CDs.Additionally,we summarize the many remarkable properties of BP-CDs including optical properties,biocompatibility and pharmaceutical efficacy.Moreover,the antibacterial,antiviral,anticancer,biosensing,bioimaging,and other applications of BP-CDs are reviewed.Thereafter,we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of BP-CDs and Western drug-derived CDs,highlighting the excellent performance of BP-CDs.Finally,based on the current state of research on BP-CDs,we suggest several aspects of BP-CDs that urgently need to be addressed and identify directions that should be pursued in the future.This comprehensive review on BP-CDs is expected to guide the precise design,preparation,and future development of BP-CDs,thereby advancing the application of BP-CDs in biomedicine.