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When a drug enters an organism, interactions between the drug and proteins in the organism play a vital role in the storage, transport and metabolism of the drug and also affect its nonspecific toxicity, targeting and pharmacodynamic activity. However, monitoring the interaction process is a great challenge in the research of the absorption, transport and metabolic processes of drugs. In this study, we used reflectometric interference spectroscopy (RIfS) and silica colloidal crystal (SCC) film as a sensing platform to detect the binding affinity between human serum albumin (HSA) and indomethacin. SCC films composed of three silica nanospheres with different diameters were fabricated using the vertical evaporation method. HSA was immobilized covalently on SCC film using a very simple approach, and optical thickness was used as a parameter to evaluate the process of drug absorption and desorption. Finally, the optimal SCC film was selected, and three drugs other than indomethacin (i.e., warfarin, salicylic acid and quinine) were used for the validation of this sensing platform. The results verified that SCC film using RIfS is a simple and real-time sensing platform for detecting the affinity between HSA and drugs, which may be widely used in drug development and clinical testing in the future.

There is a widespread intuitive sense that people prefer participating in spreading the information in which they are interested. The affinity of people with information disseminated can affect the information propagation in social networks. In this paper, we propose an information diffusion model incorporating the mechanism of affinity of people with information which considers the fitness of affinity values of people with affinity threshold of the information. We find that the final size of information diffusion is affected by affinity threshold of the information, average degree of the network and the probability of people's losing their interest in the information. We also explore the effects of other factors on information spreading by numerical simulations and find that the probabilities of people's questioning and confirming the information can affect the propagation speed, but not the final scope.