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Pesticides play a key role in controlling weeds, pests, and diseases in modern agriculture to promote crop yield. However, traditional pesticides tended to enter the atmosphere, water, and soil easily through runoff, volatilization, and leaching, resulting in serious environmental problems and even hazards to the health of human beings. It’s urgent to develop new methods to control the pesticide loss.
Astaxanthin (AST), distributed widely in aquatic animals, protects against oxidative stress, various diseases, and age-related degeneration. Many studies have shown AST with different chirality has different biological activities and functions, so it’s important to identify the chirality of AST. High performance liquid chromatography is generally used, but the analysis takes a long time and requires a relatively large amount of sample. Therefore, it is necessary to explore new technologies for identifying the chirality of AST.
Recently, the research group of Liangbao Yang, from the Institute of Health and Medical Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), developed in-situ SERS readout strategy to improve the reliability of beta-galactosidase activity assay based on X-gal staining. The relevant research results have been published in Talanta.
Early detection of lung cancer has significant potential for improving the survival expectancy of patients. Low-dose CT (LDCT) screening has been widely used in the early detection of lung cancer. However, due to the high sensitivity of LDCT screening, a lot of non-tumorous pulmonary nodules are also detected. Some pulmonary nodules are difficult to distinguish benign and malignant nature by CT imaging, especially for the ground-glass nodules that are approximately 1 cm in diameter. Therefore, there is an unmet need for new non-invasive diagnostic options with high sensitivity and specificity to distinguish malignant tumors from benign pulmonary nodules.