MoS2-based biosensor for SARS-CoV-2 detection: a numerical approach by Talia Tene, Gabriela Tubon-Usca, Katherine Tixi Gallegos, María José Mendoza Salazar, Cristian Vacacela Gomez

“…Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensors are powerful tools for highly sensitive and specific detection of biomolecules. This study introduces a MoS₂-based SPR biosensor optimized for SARS-CoV-2 detection. …”
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Transcriptome Analysis of Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Eggs Subjected to the High Hydrostatic Pressure Treatment by Artur Gurgul, Klaudia Pawlina-Tyszko, Monika Bugno-Poniewierska, Tomasz Szmatoła, Igor Jasielczuk, Stefan Dobosz, Konrad Ocalewicz

“…HHP has been also found to affect biomolecules including nucleic acids, and it may be presumed that HHP administered to the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) eggs disturbs cytoplasmic maternal RNA indispensable for the early embryogenesis. …”
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Proteomic Analysis of Serum Opsonins Impacting Biodistribution and Cellular Association of Porous Silicon Microparticles by Rita E. Serda, Elvin Blanco, Aaron Mack, Susan J. Stafford, Sarah Amra, Qingpo Li, Anne van de Ven, Takemi Tanaka, Vladimir P. Torchilin, John E. Wiktorowicz, Mauro Ferrari

“…Mass transport of drug delivery vehicles is guided by particle properties, such as size, shape, composition, and surface chemistry, as well as biomolecules and serum proteins that adsorb to the particle surface. …”
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Oxidative impact on lipoprotein structure: Insights from dynamic light scattering by Nickolette Kong, Natalia Penaloza, Gustavo Agreda, Angela B. Nguyen, Joseph Gutheinz, Alison Tran, Nhi Nguyen, Tuong Vi Ho, Ana Marin, Birgit Mellis, Richa Chandra

“…Lipoproteins, key biomolecules in lipid transport, are particularly susceptible to oxidative modifications, which can contribute to atherogenesis. …”
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Copper and nickel doped carbon dots for rapid and sensitive fluorescent turn-off detection of bilirubin by A. Lakshmi Devi, M. Sreelakshmi, P. V. Suneesh, T. G. Satheesh Babu

“…All the carbon dots showed negligible interference in the presence of biomolecules and metal ions present in human serum implying the remarkable selectivity of the method to bilirubin detection. …”
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Gingival Mesenchymal Stem/Progenitor Cells: A Unique Tissue Engineering Gem by Karim M. Fawzy El-Sayed, Christof E. Dörfer

“…The review further demonstrates their immunomodulatory properties, the transplantation preconditioning attempts via multiple biomolecules to enhance their attributes, and the experimental therapeutic applications conducted to treat multiple diseases in experimental animal models in vivo. …”
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Functional nanocrystal as effective contrast agents for dual-mode imaging: Live-cell sonoluminescence and contrast-enhanced echography by V. Vighetto, E. Pascucci, N.M. Percivalle, A. Troia, K.M. Meiburger, M.R.P. van den Broek, T. Segers, V. Cauda

“…Furthermore, their nanometric size and potential targeting with biomolecules would allow ease extravasation and tissue or even cell penetration, achieving enhanced-contrast imaging. …”
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Femtomolar hydrogen sulfide detection via hybrid small-molecule nano-arrays by Xing Xing, Luyan Wu, Yuchen Zhang, Jiahao Pan, Yusuke Ishigaki, Huaqing Xie, Takanori Suzuki, Deju Ye, Jianhua Zhang, Weihua Zhang, Zhenda Lu

“…Beyond the DNA or protein biomolecules array, this work presents a promising hybrid small molecule nano-array for H2S detection, using the power of dual molecules: a dye for fluorescence emission and a quencher with specific H2S reactivity. …”
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Synthesis, H2S releasing properties, antiviral and antioxidant activities and acute cardiac effects of nucleoside 5′-dithioacetates by Miklós Bege, Miklós Lovas, Dániel Priksz, Brigitta Bernát, Ilona Bereczki, Rasha Ghanem Kattoub, Richárd Kajtár, Simon Eskeif, Levente Novák, Jan Hodek, Jan Weber, Pál Herczegh, István Lekli, Anikó Borbás

“…In this work, new cysteine-selective nucleoside-H2S-donor hybrid molecules were prepared by conjugating nucleoside biomolecules with a thiol-activatable dithioacetyl group. 5′-Dithioacetate derivatives were synthesized from the canonical nucleosides (uridine, adenosine, cytidine, guanosine and thymidine), and the putative 5′-thio metabolites were also produced from uridine and adenosine. …”
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Bioactive molecules from soybeans (Glycine max) with anti-type 2 diabetes activity: a systematic review by Adekunle Babajide Rowaiye, Lorretha Chinonye Emenyonu, Ezinne Janefrances Nwonu, Okiemute Ajiroghene Okpalefe, Joseph Akwoba Ogugua, Victor Oluwatoyin Akinseye, Gordon Chukwuma Ibeanu

“…However, this study does not capture the individual variances to these biomolecules; hence, there is the need for more future pharmacokinetic studies to better understand potential interactions, safety, and more efficacy concerns.…”
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Dynamics of Proteins by Thermal Decay of Free Radicals Induced by Ultraviolet Irradiation by Rasim B. Aslanov, Leman M. Dashdemirova, Oktay Z. Alekperov, Azad R. Abdurahimov, Oktay K. Gasymov

“…The relationship between structure, dynamics, and function of biomolecules is a fundamental interest of biophysics. …”
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Inflammatory disease progression shapes nanoparticle biomolecular corona-mediated immune activation profiles by Jacob R. Shaw, Nicholas Caprio, Nhu Truong, Mehari Weldemariam, Anh Tran, Nageswara Pilli, Swarnima Pandey, Jace W. Jones, Maureen A. Kane, Ryan M. Pearson

“…The interaction between NP surfaces and plasma-resident biomolecules results in the formation of a biomolecular corona, which varies patient-to-patient and as a function of disease state. …”
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Glioblastoma drives protease-independent extracellular matrix invasion of microglia by Chia-Wen Chang, Ashwin Bale, Rohit Bhargava, Brendan A.C. Harley

“…Here, we combine microfluidic systems with 3-D collagen hydrogels to systematically investigate microglia activation, invasion, contractility and cytokine secretion in response to GBM-microglia crosstalk. GBM inflammatory biomolecules significantly promote activation and 3D invasion of microglia. …”
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Salivary proteomics and metaproteomics identifies distinct molecular and taxonomic signatures of type-2 diabetes by Diana Samodova, Evelina Stankevic, Mathilde Sonne Søndergaard, Naiyu Hu, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Daniel R. Witte, Daniel Belstrøm, Anniek Frederike Lubberding, Pratik D. Jagtap, Torben Hansen, Atul S. Deshmukh

“…Abstract Background Saliva is a protein-rich body fluid for noninvasive discovery of biomolecules, containing both human and microbial components, associated with various chronic diseases. …”
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Metabolomics and Type 2 Diabetes: Translating Basic Research into Clinical Application by Matthias S. Klein, Jane Shearer

“…In metabolomics, the abundance of a comprehensive set of small biomolecules (metabolites) is measured, thus giving insight into disease-related metabolic alterations. …”
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A Novel Aggregation-Induced Emission-Based Electrochemiluminescence Aptamer Sensor Utilizing Red-Emissive Sulfur Quantum Dots for Rapid and Sensitive Malathion Detection by Yajun Wu, Dongxiao Ma, Xiaoli Zhu, Fangquan Xia

“…The ECL signal was reduced because the biomolecules had poor electrical conductivity and inefficient electron transfer. …”
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Evaluation of Yeast Alcohol Acetyltransferases for Ethyl Acetate Production in Clostridium ljungdahlii by Santiago T. Boto, Kareem Gerges, Bettina Bardl, Miriam A. Rosenbaum

“…However, we also show that this opens the door to more complex esterification reactions of higher added value biomolecules.…”
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Metabolic Basis for Thyroid Hormone Liver Preconditioning: Upregulation of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling by Luis A. Videla, Virginia Fernández, Pamela Cornejo, Romina Vargas

“…These include antioxidant, antiapoptotic, and anti-inflammatory mechanisms, repair or resynthesis of altered biomolecules, induction of the homeostatic acute-phase response, and stimulation of liver cell proliferation, which are required to cope with the damaging processes set in by IR.…”
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UnidecNMR: automatic peak detection for NMR spectra in 1-4 dimensions by Charles Buchanan, Gogulan Karunanithy, Olga Tkachenko, Michael Barber, Michael T. Marty, Timothy J. Nott, Christina Redfield, Andrew J. Baldwin

“…In many applications, particularly those involving biomolecules, this procedure is typically a manual and laborious process. …”
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Monosaccharide coatings on nanoparticles affect protein corona formation but not the interaction with their binding receptor by Eva Clemente, Ruth Mateu, Avelino Ferreira, Tanja Ludtke, Tanja Ludtke, Hender Lopez, Sergio E. Moya, Luigi Lay, Mahmoud G. Soliman, Marco P. Monopoli

“…NPs functionalisation with glycans has become an emerging approach to increase their biocompatibility as these biomolecules are highly hydrophilic, biocompatible interact with biological receptors expressed in the body, and can be conjugated, controlling their orientation. …”
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