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Scanning Probe Microscopy Characterization of Organic Self-Assembled Monolayers

As technology advances, surface coatings become more and more important to assure materials performances. In recent years, molecular coatings have found larger acceptance and uses. Among them, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are attractive because they ar ...

EPFL2018

Comparison of computational methods for the identification of topologically associating domains

Elisa Oricchio, Daniele Tavernari, Marie-Pierre Zufferey

BackgroundChromatin folding gives rise to structural elements among which are clusters of densely interacting DNA regions termed topologically associating domains (TADs). TADs have been characterized across multiple species, tissue types, and differentiati ...

2018

Statistical Analysis of Protein Sequences: A Coevolutionary Study of Molecular Chaperones

Duccio Malinverni

Recent advances in DNA sequencing technologies led to the accumulation of enormous quantities of genetic information available in public databases. This rapid growth of available biological datasets calls for quantitative analysis tools and concomitantly o ...

EPFL2018

Electrochemical Imaging of Cells and Tissues

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Tzu-En Lin

The technological and experimental progress in electrochemical imaging of biological specimens is discussed with a view on potential applications for skin cancer diagnostics, reproductive medicine and microbial testing. The electrochemical analysis of sing ...

2018

System for active skull replacement for brain interface and method of using the same

Catherine Dehollain, Kanber Mithat Silay, Gürkan Yilmaz

An active skull replacement system including an implant having an area A, an upper surface, and a bottom surface, adapted to be implanted at least in part into a skull of a subject so to substitute a portion of the skull, the bottom surface arranged to fac ...

2017

Profiling of Single-Cell Transcriptomes

Bart Deplancke, Vincent Roland Julien Gardeux, Wanze Chen, Antonio Carlos Alves Meireles Filho

Complex biological systems are composed of multiple cell types whose transcriptional activity can vary due to differences in cell state, environmental stimulation or intrinsic programs. Conventional bulk analysis methods capture the average transcriptional ...

2017

Shape constrained splines as transparent black-box models for bioprocess modeling

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Sriniketh Srinivasan

Empirical model identification for biological systems is a challenging task due to the combined effects of complex interactions, nonlinear effects, and lack of specific measurements. In this context, several researchers have provided tools for experimental ...

Elsevier2017

Integration of Metabolic, Regulatory and Signaling Networks Towards Analysis of Perturbation and Dynamic Responses

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Anush Chiappino-Pepe, Vikash Kumar Pandey

The expanding generation of dynamic biological data requires approaches that integrate and analyze information from different types of cellular processes –metabolism, regulation, and signaling–, and ultimately increase our insights into the cell behavior u ...

2017

Caged luciferin probes for the bioluminescence imaging of nitroreductase and hydrogen sulfide in living animals

Anzhelika Vorobyeva

Molecular imaging advances our understanding of cellular and molecular functions within complex biological systems. The development of novel imaging probes that can be applied to answer fundamental biological questions, diagnose and monitor disease progres ...

EPFL2016