Effects of virtual reality training on decreasing the rates of needlestick or sharp injury in new-coming medical and nursing interns in Taiwan

Szu-Hsien Wu,Chia-Chang Huang,Shiau-Shian Huang,Ying-Ying Yang,Chih-Wei Liu,Boaz Shulruf,Chen-Huan Chen 한국보건의료인국가시험원 2020 보건의료교육평가 Vol.17 No.-

Purpose: Senior nursing and medical interns’ lack of familiarity and confidence with respect to practicing universal precaution for theprevention of occupational needlestick or sharp injuries may harm themselves. Trainees’ self-reported needlestick or sharp injury ratewas known to be especially high during the first 2 months of internship in Taiwan. This prospective cohort study aimed to assess the effect of newly developed virtual reality (VR) game, which uses Gagne’s learning model to improve universal precaution for needlestickor sharp injury prevention and decrease the rates of needle stick or sharp injuries in new-coming medical and nursing interns in Taiwan. Methods: From 2017 to 2019, the VR system was developed and applied in training of 59 new-coming nursing and 50 medical interns. Occupational needlestick or sharp injury prevention was sought to be achieved through a game of right and wrong choices for safe orunsafe universal precaution behaviors. Results: In comparison with medical interns, a higher proportion of nursing interns had past experiences of deep occupational needlestick or sharp injury. Before VR training, the familiarity and confidence for needlestick or sharp injury prevention were higher amongnursing interns than medical interns. Trainees with past experiences of deep needlestick or sharp injury exhibited better performanceon the accuracy rate and time needed to complete 20 decisions than those without past experiences in VR practice. All trainees showedan improved performance after VR training. A high proportion of trainees reported that the VR-based training significantly decreasedtheir anxiety about needlestick or sharp injury prevention. Conclusion: This self-developed VR game system using Gagne’s flow improved universal precaution for needlestick or sharp injuryprevention and reduced the needlestick or sharp injury rates in the first 2 months of nursing and medical internship.

Lineage Tracing: Computational Reconstruction Goes Beyond the Limit of Imaging

Szu-Hsien Wu,이지현,구본경 한국분자세포생물학회 2019 Molecules and cells Vol.42 No.2

Tracking the fate of individual cells and their progeny through lineage tracing has been widely used to investigate various biological processes including embryonic development, homeostatic tissue turnover, and stem cell function in regeneration and disease. Conventional lineage tracing involves the marking of cells either with dyes or nucleoside analogues or genetic marking with fluorescent and/or colorimetric protein reporters. Both are imaging-based approaches that have played a crucial role in the field of developmental biology as well as adult stem cell biology. However, imaging-based lineage tracing approaches are limited by their scalability and the lack of molecular information underlying fate transitions. Recently, computational biology approaches have been combined with diverse tracing methods to overcome these limitations and so provide high-order scalability and a wealth of molecular information. In this review, we will introduce such novel computational methods, starting from single-cell RNA sequencing-based lineage analysis to DNA barcoding or genetic scar analysis. These novel approaches are complementary to conventional imaging-based approaches and enable us to study the lineage relationships of numerous cell types during vertebrate, and in particular human, development and disease.

Comparison of the Infant and Adult Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Proliferation, Senescence, Anti-oxidative Ability and Differentiation Potential

Wu Szu-Hsien,Yu Jin-Huei,Liao Yu-Ting,Liu Kuo-Hao,Chiang En-Rung,Chang Ming-Chau,Wang Jung-pan 한국조직공학과 재생의학회 2022 조직공학과 재생의학 Vol.19 No.3

BACKGROUND: Infant adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ADSCs) collected from excised polydactyly fat tissue, which was surgical waste, could be cultured and expanded in vitro in this study. In addition, the collecting process would not cause pain in the host. In this study, the proliferation, reduction of senescence, anti-oxidative ability, and differentiation potential in the infant ADSCs were compared with those in the adult ADSCs harvested from thigh liposuction to determine the availability of infant ADSCs. METHODS: Proliferation was determined by detecting the fold changes in cell numbers and doubling time periods. Senescence was analyzed by investigating the age-related gene expression levels and the replicative stress. The superoxide dismutase (SOD) gene expression, adipogenic, neurogenic, osteogenic, and tenogenic differentiation were compared by RTqPCR. The chondrogenic differentiation efficiency was also determined using RT-qPCR and immunohistochemical staining. RESULTS: The proliferation, SOD (SOD1, SOD2 and SOD3) gene expression, the stemness-related gene (c-MYC) and telomerase reverse transcriptase of the infant ADSCs at early passages were enhanced compared with those of the adults’. Cellular senescence related genes, including p16, p21 and p53, and replicative stress were reduced in the infant ADSCs. The adipogenic genes (PPARc and LPL) and neurogenic genes (MAP2 and NEFH) of the infant ADSC differentiated cells were significantly higher than those of the adults’ while the expression of the osteogenic genes (OCN and RUNX) and tenogenic genes (TNC and COL3A1) of both demonstrated opposite results. The chondrogenic markers (SOX9, COL2 and COL10) were enhanced in the infant ADSC differentiated chondrogenic pellets, and the expression levels of SODs were decreased during the differentiation process. CONCLUSION: Cultured infant ADSCs demonstrate less cellular senescence and replicative stress, higher proliferation rates, better antioxidant defense activity, and higher potential of chondrogenic, adipogenic and neurogenic differentiation.

SCON—a Short Conditional intrON for conditional knockout with one-step zygote injection

Wu Szu-Hsien Sam,Lee Heetak,Szép-Bakonyi Réka,Colozza Gabriele,Boese Ayse,Gert Krista R.,Hallay Natalia,Lee Ji-Hyun,Kim Jihoon,Zhu Yi,Linssen Margot M.,Pilat-Carotta Sandra,Hohenstein Peter,Theussl Ha 생화학분자생물학회 2022 Experimental and molecular medicine Vol.54 No.-

The generation of conditional alleles using CRISPR technology is still challenging. Here, we introduce a Short Conditional intrON (SCON, 189 bp) that enables the rapid generation of conditional alleles via one-step zygote injection. In this study, a total of 13 SCON mouse lines were successfully generated by 2 different laboratories. SCON has conditional intronic functions in various vertebrate species, and its target insertion is as simple as CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene tagging.

Lineage Tracing: Computational Reconstruction Goes Beyond the Limit of Imaging

Wu, Szu-Hsien (Sam),Lee, Ji-Hyun,Koo, Bon-Kyoung Korean Society for Molecular and Cellular Biology 2019 Molecules and cells Vol.42 No.2

Tracking the fate of individual cells and their progeny through lineage tracing has been widely used to investigate various biological processes including embryonic development, homeostatic tissue turnover, and stem cell function in regeneration and disease. Conventional lineage tracing involves the marking of cells either with dyes or nucleoside analogues or genetic marking with fluorescent and/or colorimetric protein reporters. Both are imaging-based approaches that have played a crucial role in the field of developmental biology as well as adult stem cell biology. However, imaging-based lineage tracing approaches are limited by their scalability and the lack of molecular information underlying fate transitions. Recently, computational biology approaches have been combined with diverse tracing methods to overcome these limitations and so provide high-order scalability and a wealth of molecular information. In this review, we will introduce such novel computational methods, starting from single-cell RNA sequencing-based lineage analysis to DNA barcoding or genetic scar analysis. These novel approaches are complementary to conventional imaging-based approaches and enable us to study the lineage relationships of numerous cell types during vertebrate, and in particular human, development and disease.

Tight-Binding Theory for Coupling Asymmetric Photonic Crystal Waveguides

Szu-Cheng Cheng,Chih-Hsien Huang,Wen-Feng Hsieh 한국물리학회 2008 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.53 No.2

The physical properties of asymmetric photonic-crystal directional couplers are studied under the tight-binding model, which asumes that the field distribution of photonic-crystal waveguides is localized around periodic defects. The couplings of nearby defects betwen two asymmetric waveguides cause two dispersion relations to split further whereas the couplings of nearby defects within an individual waveguide cause the sinusoidal modulations of the dispersion curves. The field-envelope distributions of the coupler are expresed by using the eigenmodes of the tight- binding equations and are consistent with the comparing results from nite-dierence time-domain simulations.