The CIA under the administration of President George W Bush set up so-called “black sites” around the world to hold terror suspects following the September 11 attacks in 2001, including Abu Zubaydah in Lithuania and Abd Al-Rashim Al-Nashiri in Romania. 

New Zealand remains under "intense pressure" from pests, which are costing our economy billions of dollars each year.

The average number of PD-L1 sites on each captured MDA-MB-231 cell was calculated to be ~2973, which was more than twofold that on each HCC38 cell. This result suggests that the MDA-MB-231 cells may be more sensitive to the PD-L1 Abs treatment than the HCC38 cells. Comparably, the intensity obtained on the cytosensors (I) for MCF-7 is much lower, and it shows a linear relation to the logarithmic value of captured cancer cells (N) in the narrow range from 5 × 103 to 5 × 104 cells (R = 0.993, n = 5). As shown in Fig. 5 (H and I), the linear regression equation is

"My dream is to travel to Hawaii," said our source. "Hawaii is in every Chinese textbook because Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern China, went to Iolani School and because of movies and television shows such as ‘Hawaii Five-O’ and ‘Magnum, P.I.’" He was last seen departing Beijing Capital International Airport wearing a shanzhai Hilo Hattie’s Aloha shirt, board shorts and flip-flops.

Khandekar was also part of the team behind the famous restoration of the Rothko murals commissioned by Harvard in 1962. Installed in the Holyoke Center, a modernist tower, the paintings were subjected to an unfiltered flow of light and the kind of casual abuse inflicted by chair backs and college catering until 1979, when conservators, curators, and university administrators, recognizing the extent of the damage, took them down. The murals were next exhibited in 1988, and Harvard received a barrage of criticism for their neglect. Some conservators have blamed the paintings’ discoloration on Rothko’s use of rabbit-skin glue as a binder; others, on his choice of Lithol Red, a low-cost powder pigment. Khandekar, who oversaw the research on the Harvard murals, suspects that their extreme fading was due to Rothko’s mixing of a calcium-salt red with synthetic ultramarine to make the purplish indigo that he so loved in his saturnine years.

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In this work, a novel ternary, plasmon-free MGT SERS probe platform has been first successfully developed for the sensitive and selective detection of various types of TNBCs and for the evaluation of PD-L1 expression at the single-cell level. First of all, a ternary nanostructure has been designed and synthesized layer by layer and used as a plasmon-free SERS substrate. The EF value of MGT for CuPc has been estimated to be 8.08 × 106, which is one order of magnitude higher than the highest value reported by far. Both experimental results and theoretical DFT calculation have revealed that introduction of TiO2 to the MG nanocomposites induces a significant enhancement of the Raman intensity of individual molecules with high selectivity, which should be attributed to the resonance Raman effect of CuPc, CT between GO and TiO2 in MGT nanocomposites, and the enrichment of porous TiO2. The developed SERS substrate has been designed as a nanoprobe providing remarkable properties for quantification of PD-L1 expression on TNBC surfaces with a detection limit down to ~3 cells. Besides, this SERS probe has been used to measure in situ the expression of PD-L1 on TNBC surfaces at the single-cell level and to monitor the expression variation and distribution of PD-L1 during drug treatment through Raman mapping images. Thus, a probe with ultrahigh EF based on CM has been provided, which can also act as a robust and rapid cytosensor for cancer cells and membrane protein with selectivity, sensitivity, and accuracy. In addition, MGT nanocomposites have demonstrated excellent recyclability under visible light. This versatile SERS cytosensing platform has been a promising tool for detection of PD-L1 expression with great clinical value for diagnosis and treatment of human TNBCs, which can be expanded for detection of other trace cancer biomarkers and for reliable diagnosis of cancer and other diseases.

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Inventor(s): Logan Gilpin (Fort Worth, TX) Assignee(s): UNASSIGNED Law Firm: Law Office of Jeff Williams (Local + 690 other metros) Application No., Date, Speed: 14588376 on 12/31/2014 (1441 days app to issue)