• Electrical monitoring of infection biomarkers in chronic wounds using nanochannels 

      Iglesias-Mayor, Alba; Amor-Gutiérez, Olaya; Toyos-Rodríguez, Celia; Bassegoda Puigdomenech, Arnau; Tzanov, Tzanko; Escosura-Muñiz, Alfredo de la (2022-08-01)
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      Chronic wounds represent an important healthcare challenge in developed countries, being wound infection a serious complication with significant impact on patients’ life conditions. However, there is a lack of methods ...
    • Layer-by-layer modification effects on a nanopore's inner surface of polycarbonate track-etched membranes 

      Paoli, Roberto; Engel López, Elisabeth; Homs-Corbera, A; Samitier Martí, Josep (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2020)
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      The control of the morphology, as well as the physical and chemical properties, of nanopores is a key issue for many applications. Reducing pore size is important in nanopore-based sensing applications as it helps to ...
    • Modeling biominerals formed by apatites and DNA 

      Revilla López, Guillermo; Casanovas, Jordi; Bertran Cànovas, Òscar; Turón Dols, Pau; Puiggalí Bellalta, Jordi; Alemán Llansó, Carlos (2013-04-08)
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      Different aspects of biominerals formed by apatite and DNA have been investigated using computer modeling tools. Firstly, the structure and stability of biominerals in which DNA molecules are embedded into hydroxyapatite ...
    • Novel genotype–phenotype correlations, differential cerebellar allele-specific methylation, and a common origin of the (ATTTC)n insertion in spinocerebellar ataxia type 37 

      Sanchez Flores, Marina; Corral Juan, Marc; Gasch Navalón, Esther; Cirillo, Davide; Sanchez, Ivelisse; Matilla Dueñas, Antoni (Springer, 2024)
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      Spinocerebellar ataxia subtype 37 (SCA37) is a rare disease originally identified in ataxia patients from the Iberian Peninsula with a pure cerebellar syndrome. SCA37 patients carry a pathogenic intronic (ATTTC)n repeat ...
    • Sub-micro- and nano-sized polyethylene terephthalate deconstruction with engineered protein nanopores 

      Robles Martín, Ana; Amigot Sánchez, Rafael; Fernandez Lopez, Laura; Gonzalez Alfonso, Jose L.; Roda, Sergi; Guallar, Victor (Nature Research, 2023)
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      The identification or design of biocatalysts to mitigate the accumulation of plastics, including sub-micro- and nano-sized polyethylene terephthalate (nPET), is becoming a global challenge. Here we computationally incorporated ...
    • Tracking of antibiotic resistance transfer and rapid plasmid evolution in a hospital setting by Nanopore sequencing 

      Peter, Silke; Bosio, Mattia; Gross, Caspar; Bezdan, Daniela; Gutierrez, Javier; Oberhettinger, Philipp; Liese, Jan; Vogel, Wichard; Dörfel, Daniela; Berger, Lennard; Marschal, Matthias; Willmann, Matthias; Gut, Ivo; Gut, Marta; Autenrieth, Ingo; Ossowski, Stephan (American Society for Microbiology, 2020)
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      Infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria often leave limited or no treatment options. The transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes (ARG) carrying plasmids between bacterial species by horizontal gene transfer represents ...