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Monitoring Tuberculosis Drug Activity in Live Animals by Using Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging

Stewart Cole, Raphael Christopher Sommer

Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death due to infection with a single pathogenic agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In the absence of an effective vaccine, new, more powerful antibiotics are required to halt the growing spread of multid ...

AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY2019

Analysis of patient-specific stimulation with segmented leads in the subthalamic nucleus

Philippe Renaud, André Mercanzini

Objective Segmented deep brain stimulation leads in the subthalamic nucleus have shown to increase therapeutic window using directional stimulation. However, it is not fully understood how these segmented leads with reduced electrode size modify the volume ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2019

The Connection Between the Nervous System and Machines: Commentary

Giacomo Valle

Decades of technological developments have populated the field of brain-machine interfaces and neuroprosthetics with several replacement strategies, neural modulation treatments, and rehabilitation techniques to improve the quality of life for patients aff ...

2019

More Medicines for Tuberculosis: Fuelling Drug Discovery against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Shi-Yan Caroline Foo

Tuberculosis (TB), whose etiological agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), has plagued humanity since antiquity. Even with chemotherapy available today, TB is the leading cause of death due to an infectious disease. Modern day factors, suc ...

EPFL2018

Protecting Privacy and Security of Genomic Data in i2b2 with Homomorphic Encryption and Differential Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Jean Louis Raisaro, Gwangbae Choi

Re-use of patients’ health records can provide tremendous benefits for clinical research. Yet, when researchers need to access sensitive/identifying data, such as genomic data, in order to compile cohorts of well-characterized patients for specific studies ...

IEEE2018

Nanoparticle-Enhanced Plasmonic Biosensor for Digital Biomarker Detection in a Microarray

Hatice Altug, Filiz Yesilköy, Alexander Belushkin

Nanoplasmonic devices have become a paradigm for biomolecular detection enabled by enhanced light–matter interactions in the fields from biological and pharmaceutical research to medical diagnostics and global health. In this work, we present a bright-fiel ...

2018

TUCUXI: TUCUXI: An Intelligent System for Personalized Medicine from Individualization of Treatments to Research Databases and Back

Karl Aberer, Michael Ignaz Schumacher, Yann Thoma, Alevtina Dubovitskaya

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is a key concept in precision medicine. The goal of TDM is to avoid therapeutic failure or toxic effects of a drug due to insufficient or excessive circulating concentration exposure related to between-patient variability ...

2017

Wearable systems for grasp rehabilitation after stroke

Andrea Crema

Stroke is the leading cause of long term disability, causing both motor and cognitive impairments. Stroke impacts both motor and somatosensory capabilities of the individual, causing distorted perception of the environment and of the body. Consequently per ...

EPFL2017

Development of an albumin-binding ligand for prolonging the plasma half-life of peptide therapeutics

Alessandro Zorzi

Peptides represent a promising format for the development of therapeutics since they combine the advantages of proteins and small molecules. Several techniques based on rational design or in vitro evolution can be used to develop peptides as therapeutics. ...

EPFL2017

Oral application of Escherichia coli bacteriophage: safety tests in healthy and diarrheal children from Bangladesh

Patrick Descombes

A T4-like coliphage cocktail was given with different oral doses to healthy Bangladeshi children in a placebo-controlled randomized phase I safety trial. Fecal phage detection was oral dose dependent suggesting passive gut transit of coliphages through the ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Microfluidic platforms for high-throughput mammalian cell printing, transfection, and dosage-dependent studies

Kristina Pan Woodruff

With the advent of high-throughput and genome-wide screening initiatives, there is a need for improved methods for cell-based assays. Current approaches require expensive equipment, rely on large-scale culturing formats not suited for small or rare sample ...

EPFL2017