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Yang Song, Jiaoyue Long, Jeremiah Woodcock, Joy Dunkers, Hung Chun Lin, Douglas M. Fox, Xiaoling Liao, Yonggang Lv, Li Yang, Martin Chiang
This study experimentally substantiates the micromechanical compatibility between cell and substrate is essential for cells to achieve energetically favorable mechanotransduction that directs phenotypic transitions. The argument for this compatibility is
Rebecca Schugar, Christy Gliniak, Lucas Osborn, William Massey, Naseer Sangwan, Anthony Horak, Rakhee Banerjee, Danny Orabi, Robert Helsley, Amanda Brown, Amy Burrows, Chelsea Finney, Kevin Fung, Frederick Allen, Daniel Ferguson, Anthony Gromovsky, Chase Neumann, Kendall Cook, Amy McMillan, Jennifer Buffa, James Anderson, Margarete Mehrabian, Maryam Goudarzi, Belinda Willard, Tytus Mak, Andrew Armstrong, Garth Swanson, Ali Keshavarzian, Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, Zeneng Wang, Aldons Lusis, Stanley Hazen, Mark Brown
Obesity has repeatedly been linked to reorganization of the gut microbiome, yet to this point obesity therapeutics have been targeted exclusively toward the human host. Here we show that gut microbe-targeted inhibition of the trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)
Greta Babakhanova, Stephen Zimmerman, Laura Pierce, Sumona Sarkar, Nicholas Schaub, Carl Simon Jr.
Cell viability is an essential measurement for cell therapy products. One of the most common tests is Trypan blue (TB) dye exclusion where blue-stained cells are counted via imaging. Typically, live and dead cells are counted based on pixel intensities of
Eugenia Romantseva, Drew S. Tack, Nina Alperovich, David Ross, Elizabeth Strychalski
Cell-free systems are increasingly used for in vitro protein production and offer a promising alternative to traditional, cell-based biomanufacturing[1-6]. At the state-of-the-art, cell-free systems can provide a high-throughput platform for on-demand
Stephen Zimmerman, Carl Simon Jr., Greta Babakhanova
The AbsorbanceQ app converts brightfield microscope images into absorbance images that can be analyzed and compared across different operators, microscopes and time. Absorbance-based measurements are comparable, which is useful when the aim is to
Fred Walls, Danielle France, Ward L. Johnson, John Miles, Nikki Rentz, William Cordell, Shelley Kon, Ian Babson
A new low cost, multi-channel desktop digital instrument was developed which measures bacteria response when exposed to multiple antibiotics vs a control channel with no antibiotic in about an hour by detecting PM noise induced by their mechanical motion
We present the differences in cell migration patterns of endothelial cells when they physically interact with cancer cells through a porous membrane barrier (1.2 µm pore size). Cells were dielectrophoretically trapped on opposite sides of an 11 µm thick
Elijah Petersen, Cordula Hirsch, John T. Elliott, Peter Wick, Harald Krug, Leonie Aengenheister, Ali Arif, Alessia Bogni, Agnieszka Kinsner-Ovaskainen, Sarah May, Tobias Walser, Matthias Roesslein
Elijah Petersen, Andrew Nguyen, Jeffrey Brown, John T. Elliott, Amy Clippinger, John Gordon, Nicole Kleinstreuer, Matthias Roesslein
The use of in vitro assays to inform decision-making requires robust and reproducible results across studies, laboratories, and time. Experiments using positive control materials are an integral component of an assay procedure to demonstrate the extent to
A broad range of in vitro test methods have been developed given their numerous potential advantages over in vivo tests. We describe here key resources and tools to increase the reliability and reproducibility of in vitro test methods.
Elijah Petersen, Monita Sharma, Amy Clippinger, John Gordon, Aaron Katz, Peter Laux, Lars Leibrock, Andreas Luch, Joanna Matheson, Andreas Stucki, Jutta Tentschert, Frank Bierkandt
In vitro inhalation toxicology methods are increasingly being used for research and regulatory purposes. While the opportunity for increased human relevance of in vitro inhalation methods compared to in vivo tests has been established and discussed, how to
Nathan Castro, Greta Babakhanova, Jerry Hu, Kyriacos Athanasiou
Traditional testing methods have helped to elucidate and correlate the structure-function relationship of natural tissues and have guided the development of promising tissue-engineered medical products. From a manufacturing standpoint, such assays have
Desu Chen, Joy Dunkers, Wolfgang Losert, Sumona Sarkar
Nanofiber scaffolds can induce osteogenic differentiation and cell morphology alterations of human bone marrow stromal cells (hBMSCs) without introduction of chemical cues. In this study, we investigate the predictive power of day 1 cell morphology
Tracey Schock, Erik Andersson, Russell D. Day, Thierry M. Work, Paul Anderson, Cheryl M. Woodley
Coral growth anomalies (GAs) are tumor-like protrusions that impact both the coral skeleton and softs tissues and are detrimental to coral health. These lesions are increasingly found throughout the tropics and are commonly associated with high human