Publications related to Soviet biological weapons program

A study model for reconstructing urban ecological niches

The Living Arch is a study model that was designed to showcase our ongoing research into bioactive architectural systems to be inhabited by honeybees. The arch is a synergistic combination of 3D printing and active mycelia growth, created for a museum exhi ...

CRC Press2022

The evolution of the type VI secretion system as a disintegration weapon

Julius Hans Bernd Winter

The type VI secretion system (T6SS) is a nanomachine used by many bacteria to drive a toxin-laden needle into other bacterial cells. Although the potential to influence bacterial competition is clear, the fitness impacts of wielding a T6SS are not well und ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2020

PROPER: global protein interaction network alignment through percolation matching

Matthias Grossglauser, Seyed Hamed Hassani, Ehsan Kazemi, Hasan Pezeshgi Modarres

Background The alignment of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks enables us to uncover the relationships between different species, which leads to a deeper understanding of biological systems. Network alignment can be used to transfer biological know ...

2016

Photonic Nanojet Array for Fast Detection of Single Nanoparticles in a Flow

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Matteo Cornaglia, Hui Yang

We detect by optical microscopy Au and fluorescent nanopartides (NPs) during their motion in water based medium, using an array of dielectric microspheres that are patterned in a microwell array template. The Microspheres act as lenses focusing the light o ...

American Chemical Society2015

Electrochemical sensing and imaging of biological samples

Alexandra Bondarenko

Implementation of analytical methods for biological samples (e.g. bacteria or mammalian cells) is of great importance for diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, as well as for environmental monitoring. However, analysing biological samples is a cumbe ...

EPFL2015

Sample processing device with detachable slide

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Ata Tuna Ciftlik

A biological and chemical sample processing device that b. comprises a high pressure-resistant, shallow and wide area microfluidic chamber having at least one wall formed by a detachable slide containing samples such as immobilized entities, biological sam ...

2013

Methods for Designing Reliable Probe Arrays

Giovanni De Micheli, Luca Benini, Abhishek Garg

Recent advances in biosensing technologies have led to applications of biosensor probe arrays for rapid identification of biological agents such as drugs, gene expressions, proteins, cholesterol and fats in an input sample. However, monitoring the simultan ...

IEEE2010

3D Architecture and Replaceable Layers for Label-Free DNA Biochips

Yusuf Leblebici, Sandro Carrara, Andrea Cavallini, Yüksel Temiz

Recent advances in bio-sensing technologies have led to design of bio-sensor arrays for rapid identification and quantification of various biological agents such as drugs, gene expressions, proteins, cholesterol, fats, etc. Various dedicated sensing arrays ...

2009

A Biologically-Inspired Model of Reaching Movements

Aude Billard, Micha Hersch

This paper presents a robotic arm controller for reaching motions. This controller applies two principles inspired by current theories of human reaching motions, namely the multi-referential control of movements and the dynamical system approach to biologi ...

2006

Pumping of mammalian cells with a nozzle-diffuser micropump

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Horst Arthur Vogel, Caroline Vandevyver, Christophe Yamahata, Frédéric Lacharme, Paulina Izewska

We discuss the successful transport of jurkat cells and 5D10 hybridoma cells using a reciprocating micropump with nozzle-diffuser elements. The effect of the pumping action on cell viability and proliferation, as well as on the damaging of cellular membran ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2005