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Original articles

• Artemisinins as potential anticancer agents: uptake detection in erythrocytes using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and cytotoxicity against bladder cancer cells (6 May, 2016) Free

  Charlotte Humphreys, Alan J Cooper, Eugen Barbu, Brian R Birch, Bashir A Lwaleed
• Helicobacter pylori vacA transcription is genetically-determined and stratifies the level of human gastric inflammation and atrophy

  (17 May, 2016)

  Charlotte G Sinnett, Darren P Letley, Geetha L Narayanan, Sapna R Patel, Nawfal R Hussein, Abed M Zaitoun, Karen Robinson, John C Atherton
• Serine protease inhibitor Kazal type 1 (SPINK1) as a prognostic marker in stage IV colon cancer patients receiving cetuximab based targeted therapy (22 April, 2016)

  Yi-Ting Chen, Shu-Chuan Tsao, Hung-Pei Tsai, Jaw-Yuan Wang, Chee-Yin Chai
• Small RNA sequencing reveals a comprehensive miRNA signature of BRCA1-associated high-grade serous ovarian cancer

  (5 April, 2016)

  Jan Brouwer, Joost Kluiver, Rodrigo C de Almeida, Rutger Modderman, Miente Martijn Terpstra, Klaas Kok, Sebo Withoff, Harry Hollema, Welmoed Reitsma, Geertruida H de Bock, Marian J E Mourits, Anke van den Berg
• Fully automated PCR detection of KRAS mutations on pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspirates (27 April, 2016)

  Dario de Biase, Caterina de Luca, Gianluca Gragnano, Michela Visani, Claudio Bellevicine, Umberto Malapelle, Giovanni Tallini, Giancarlo Troncone
• Validity of whole slide images for scoring HER2 chromogenic in situ hybridisation in breast cancer (9 May, 2016)

  Shaimaa Al-Janabi, Anja Horstman, Henk-Jan van Slooten, Chantal Kuijpers, Clifton Lai-A-Fat, Paul J van Diest, Mehdi Jiwa
• A new posterior iliac puncture/aspiration needle (25 March, 2016)

  Anwarul Islam
• Persistence of immunophenotypically aberrant CD34+ myeloid progenitors is frequent in bone marrow of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasms treated with hypomethylating agents (15 April, 2016)

  Lanshan Huang, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Elias Jabbour, Maitrayee Goswami, Mark J Routbort, L Jeffrey Medeiros, Jeffrey L Jorgensen, Sa A Wang
• Decreased CD161 activating and increased CD158a inhibitory receptor expression on NK cells underlies impaired NK cell cytotoxicity in patients with multiple myeloma (15 April, 2016)

  Gordana Konjević, Ana Vuletić, Katarina Mirjačić Martinović, Nataša Colović, Milica Čolović, Vladimir Jurišić
• Dysregulation of the intrinsic apoptotic pathway mediates megakaryocytic hyperplasia in myeloproliferative neoplasms (8 April, 2016)

  Jacques A J Malherbe, Kathryn A Fuller, Bob Mirzai, Simon Kavanagh, Chi-Chiu So, Ho-Wan Ip, Belinda B Guo, Cecily Forsyth, Rebecca Howman, Wendy N Erber
• Rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of positive blood cultures using MALDI-TOF MS and a modification of the standardised disc diffusion test: a pilot study (27 April, 2016)

  C Fitzgerald, P Stapleton, E Phelan, P Mulhare, B Carey, M Hickey, B Lynch, M Doyle