background: one of the first‑line assessment tools for fetal surveillance is nonstress test (nst), although it is limited by a high rate of false‑nonreactive results. this study was performed to investigate if external stimulation from vibroacoustic and halogen light could help in provoking fetal responsiveness and altering nst results. materials and methods: this is a clinical trial. sampling ...

Francesca Munari, Michal Jan Gajda, Kyoko Hiragami-Hamada, Wolfgang Fischle, Markus Zweckstetter* Department for NMR-based Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany. German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Göttingen, Germany. Laboratory of Chromatin Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany Center f...

Skeletal proteins play an important role in determining erythrocyte membrane biophysical properties. To study whether membrane deformability and stability are regulated by the same or different skeletal protein interactions, we measured these two properties, by means of ektacytometry, in biochemically perturbed normal membranes and in membranes from individuals with known erythrocyte abnormalit...

Foot and ankle injuries are common in many sports. One of the main athletes issues is time for sport resumption after trauma. Recently, extensive efforts have been made to speed up athletes’ return-to-sport prevent joint degeneration. Among conservative treatment options, biophysical stimulation with pulsed electromagnetic fields (PEMFs) listed. This narrative review aims outline current applic...

Knots appear in a wide variety of biophysical systems, ranging from biopolymers, such as DNA and proteins, to macroscopic objects, such as umbilical cords and catheters. Although significant advancements have been made in the mathematical theory of knots and some progress has been made in the statistical mechanics of knots in idealized chains, the mechanisms and dynamics of knotting in biophysi...

Resting-state low frequency oscillations have been detected in many functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies and appear to be synchronized between functionally related areas. Converging evidence from MRI and other imaging modalities suggest that this activity has an intrinsic neuronal origin. Multiple consistent networks have been found in large populations, and have been shown to be...

Robust performance, the attainment of a specified response under uncertainty, is a well studied problem in control engineering. In the field of systems biology, related problems are emerging from the quantitative analysis of complex biophysical networks. In this paper, connections are made between the robust performance questions in biology and engineering. Two examples are used to illustrate t...