National Chiao Tung University 4 articles published in JoVE Medicine Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Superparamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoprobes for Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Detection Chun-Nin Lee1, Li-Hsuan Chiu2,5, Chia-Lang Fang3, Shauh-Der Yeh4, Chun S. Zuo5, Shih-Ching Chen6, Li-Kuo Kuo7, Yun-Ming Wang8, Wen-Fu Thomas Lai2,5,9 1Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, 2Department of Research and Department of Dentistry, Taipei Medical University / Shuang-Ho Hospital, 3Department of Pathology, Taipei Medical University, 4Department of Urology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 5McLean Imaging Center, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 6Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 7Department of Medicine, Mackay Medical College, 8Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University, 9Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University To improve serological diagnostic tests for Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens, we developed superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoprobes to detect extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Engineering A Fabrication and Measurement Method for a Flexible Ferroelectric Element Based on Van Der Waals Heteroepitaxy Jie Jiang*1, Yugandhar Bitla*2, Qiang-xiang Peng1, Yi-Chun Zhou1, Ying-Hao Chu3 1Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Materials and Application Technology of Ministry of Education, Xiangtan University, 2Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University In this paper, we present a protocol to directly grow an epitaxial yet flexible lead zirconium titanate memory element on muscovite mica. Chemistry Fizzy Extraction of Volatile Organic Compounds Combined with Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry Hao-Chun Yang1, Cheng-Hao Chang1, Pawel L. Urban1 1Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University Fizzy extraction is a new laboratory technique for analysis of volatile and semivolatile compounds. A carrier gas is dissolved in the liquid sample by applying overpressure and stirring the sample. The sample chamber is then decompressed. The analyte species are liberated to the gas phase due to effervescence. Bioengineering Preparation of Silicon Nanowire Field-effect Transistor for Chemical and Biosensing Applications Jennifer Yun-Shin Wu1, Chih-Heng Lin2, Mei-Huei Feng1, Chien-Hung Chen2, Ping-Chia Su1, Po-Wen Yang2, Jian-Ming Zheng2, Chang-Wei Fu2, Yuh-Shyong Yang1,2 1Institute of Molecular Medicine and Bioengineering, National Chiao Tung University, 2Department of Biological Science and Technology, National Chiao Tung University We describe key steps for biosensing by using polysilicon nanowire field-effect transistors, including the preparation of the device and the immobilization and confirmation of a DNA molecular probe on the nanowire surface, as well as conditions for DNA sensing.