An effective survey system for food safety and quality has attracted constant interests from governments, the food industry and consumers. One of the most important requirements for this system is to assess the risks of the food, so that consumers can make informed choices.
In-situ monitoring of specific biomarkers, such as reactive oxygen species, ions, proteins (including enzyme), at the molecular level is key to understanding their roles in physiological and pathological processes, and plays fundamental roles in early prediction of diseases treatment.
With the rapid development of nanotechnology, nanomaterials (NMs, 1-100 nm or generally extended to 500 nm in one or more dimensions) have been broadly applied in various fields. More than 1600 products containing nanomaterials are available in the market.
With the rapid increase in population and economy, the demand for food has increased dramatically. The use of antibiotics to control bacterial and virus diseases is restricted in the livestock. Vaccination is widely used to manage livestock diseases in farm industry.
Animal disease management in poultry industry is very important. Among the livestock’s diseases, campylobacter jejuni is a leading bacterial cause of food-borne illness in humans.
Chemotherapy is one of most common cancer treatments in clinics. In most cases, the clinical responses show that the efficacy of chemotherapy is limited by the development of multidrug resistance (MDR) in cancer cells during a long period of treatment.
Cancer is one of the deadly diseases in the world with with more than 10 million new cases every year. Over 8 million patients are killed by the cancer. Among cancer treatment, chemotherapy is one of the major treatment options for these cancer patients.
Recent clinical trials of a new method for delivering non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) using clay nanoparticles developed by researchers at The University of Queensland have shown positive results.
