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In recent years, clinicians have used virtual reality (VR) to simulate real-world environments for medical purposes. The use of VR systems in the field of cervical spine surgery can lead to effective surgical training programs without causing harm to patients. Moreover, both imaging and VR can be used before surgery to assist preoperative surgical planning. VR devices have a variety of built-in motion sensors, therefore kinematic data can be recorded while users are wearing VR devices and performing some actions for the evaluation of cervical spine activity and exercise ability. Therapists have also applied VR to cervical spine rehabilitation and showed good results. At present, the application of VR systems in cervical spine surgery has great potential, but current research is insufficient. Here, we review the latest advancements in VR technology used in cervical spine surgery and discuss potential directions for future work.Neonatal sepsis is a bloodstream infection primarily caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli), Group B Streptococcus (GBS), Listeria monocytogenes, Haemophilus influenzae, S. aureus, Klebsiella spp. and non-typhoidal Salmonella bacteria. Danuglipron research buy Neonatal Sepsis is referred as a critical response to the infection in the neonatal period that can lead to the failure of body organs and thereby causing damage to the tissues resulting in death of the neonates. Nearly 4 million deaths across the world are occurred due to neonatal sepsis infections. In order to prevent the bloodstream infections in the neonates, it is indispensable to diagnose the disease properly for appropriate treatment during the point of care. Numerous studies have been reported to identify major biomarkers associated with neonatal sepsis including Serum Amyloid A (SAA), C - reactive protein (CRP), Procalcitonin (PCT) and Lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP). Distinct diagnostic platforms have also been developed detecting the presence of bloodstream infections including electrochemical, potentiometric, and impedimetric sensors. Recently, electrochemical biosensors with the integration of nanomaterials have emerged as a better platform for neonatal sepsis biomarkers detection. This review article summarizes the diverse screening platforms, evaluation parameters, and new advances based on implications of nanomaterials for the development of biosensors detecting neonatal sepsis infections. The review further elucidates the significance and future scope of distinctive platforms which are predominantly associated with detection of neonatal sepsis.Herein, we report a membraneless glucose and air photoelectrochemical biofuel cell (PBFC) with a visible light assisted photobioanode. Flavin adenine dinucleotide dependent glucose dehydrogenase (FADGDH) was immobilized on the combined photobioanode for the visible light assisted glucose oxidation (GCE|MWCNT|g-C3N4|Ru-complex|FADGDH) with a quinone mediated electron transfer. Bilirubine oxidase (BOx) immobilized on MWCNT coated GCE (GCE|BOx) was used as the cathode with direct electron transfer (DET). An improvement of biocatalytic oxidation current was observed by 6.2% due in part to the light-driven electron-transfer. The large oxidation currents are probably owing to the good contacting of the immobilized enzymes with the electrode material and the utilization of light assisted process. Under the visible light, the photobioanode shows an anodic photocurrent of 1.95 μA cm2 at attractively low potentials viz. -0.4 vs Ag/AgCl. The lower-lying conduction band of g-C3N4 as compared to Ru-complexes decreases the rate of hole and electron recombination and enhances the charge transportation. The bioanode shows maximum current density for glucose oxidation up to 6.78 μA cm-2 at 0.2 V vs Ag/AgCl at pH7. The performance of three promising Ru-complexes differing in chemical and redox properties were compared as electron mediators for FADGDH. Upon illumination, the PBFC delivered a maximum power density of 28.5 ± 0.10 μW cm-2 at a cell voltage of +0.4 V with an open circuit voltage of 0.64 V.miRNAs are a large family of non-coding RNAs which play important roles in translational and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression and biological processes. Abnormal expression of miRNAs is related to the initiation and progression of different diseases which make them be promising candidates for early medical diagnostics. Thus, accurate detection of miRNAs has great significance for disorder diagnosis. Nevertheless, their intrinsic characteristics such as short sequence, low concentration and sequence homology challenge routine techniques. The detection assays need to be extremely sensitive and selective in small value of intricate RNA samples. Biosensor-based strategies have emerged as potential alternatives to conventional methods in miRNA quantification. The surface plasmon resonance (SPR), an optical biosensor, possessing various advantages including excellent reliability, selectivity and reproducibility represents a wide range of applications in real-time monitoring of biomolecular interactions and detection of biological and chemical analytes with label-based or label free form. Various signal amplification methods can overcome the limitation of SPR methods for detection of small molecules, making it suitable for clinical diagnosis. This review discusses main concepts and performance characteristics of SPR biosensor. Mainly, it focuses on newly emerged enhanced SPR biosensors towards high-throughput and ultrasensitive screening of miRNAs using labeling processes with focusing on the future application in biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. Actually, label-based signal amplification strategies of SPR platforms including nanoparticle enhancement, supersandwich assembly, streptavidin/biotin complex, antibody amplification, enzymatic reactions, triplex structure formation and catalytic hairpin assembly are discussed. Finally label free detection of miRNAs and advantages of SPR-based method was presented.Deciphering patterns in the structural and functional anatomy of genes can prove to be very helpful in understanding genetic biology and genomics. Also, the availability of the multiple omics data, along with the advent of machine learning techniques, aids medical professionals in gaining insights about various biological regulations. Gene clustering is one of the many such computation techniques that can help in understanding gene behavior. However, more comprehensive and reliable insights can be gained if different modalities/views of biomedical data are considered. However, in most multi-view cases, each view contains some missing data, leading to incomplete multi-view clustering. In this study, we have presented a deep Boltzmann machine-based incomplete multi-view clustering framework for gene clustering. Here, we seek to regenerate the data of the three NCBI datasets in the incomplete modalities using Shape Boltzmann Machines. The overall performance of the proposed multi-view clustering technique has been evaluated using the Silhouette index and Davies-Bouldin index, and the comparative analysis shows an improvement over state-of-the-art methods.