BIOMEDICINE: Starved for Infection

Text Mining for Biomedicine

Text mining provides the automated means to manage information overload and overlook. By adding meaning to text, text mining techniques produce a much more structured analysis of textual knowledge than do simple word searches, and can provide powerful tools for knowledge discovery in biomedicine. In this chapter, the author focus on the text mining services for biomedicine offered by the United...

Nanoparticle patterning for biomedicine

Nanoparticles are being used for construction of complex and higher-order functional structures and metamaterials with applications in nanophotonics, information storage and biomedicine, to name a few. These innovations are briefly discussed within the context of future diagnostic and nanomedicine platform technologies and their possible self-assembly in vivo.

Nanocarbon surfaces for biomedicine

The distinctive physicochemical, mechanical and electrical properties of carbon nanostructures are currently gaining the interest of researchers working in bioengineering and biomedical fields. Carbon nanotubes, carbon dendrimers, graphenic platelets and nanodiamonds are deeply studied aiming at their application in several areas of biology and medicine.   Here we provide a summary of the carbo...

Autophagy: Starved β‐cells seem different from starved body

Macroautophagy (hereafter referred as “autophagy”) is a process where cellular components are sequestered into a vesicle (autophagosome) and are then degraded by lysosomal enzymes through formation of a fused vesicle (autolysosome). “Constitutive” autophagy was recently shown to have a role in maintaining mass and function of pancreatic islet b-cells. Additionally, dysregulated autophagy in b-c...

Tropical Biomedicine