Cypermethrin is a toxic pesticide in the pyrethroid group. A Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) based sensor has been developed to achieve simple pesticide sensing. In this work, rapid detection of cypermethrin by using the handheld Raman spectroscopy coupled with SERS substrate was demonstrated. SERS-active...
Carbaryl pesticides have been used to fight against pests to increase the yields of agricultural products. Because of their ability of inactivating acetylcholinesterase (AChE), carbaryl are considered to have potent neurotoxicity. Exposure carbaryl even at low to mild doses, may lead to long-term nervous system...
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has been widely studied and recognized as a powerful label-free technique for trace chemical analysis. However, its drawback in simultaneously identifying several molecular species has greatly limited its real-world applications. In this work, we reported a combination between SERS and...
A concern is the level of antibiotic residues in pork. Antibiotics are extensively used at high dosage in swine farming to accelerate growth, reduce mortality, improve fertility, and prevent various breast, blood, respiratory, and gastrointestinal bacterial infection in pigs. Antibiotics are crucial in maintaining swine...
Autophagy is a conserved lysosomal-dependent cellular degradation process and its dysregulation has been linked to numerous diseases including neurodegeneration, infectious diseases, and cancer. Modulation of autophagy is therefore considered as an attractive target for disease intervention. We carried out a high-content image analysis screen of...