Bioengineering

Bacterial Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning

1. Liam K. Herndon
2. Yirui Zhang
3. Fareeha Safir
4. Babatunde Ogunlade
5. Halleh B. Balch
6. Alexandria B. Boehm
7. Jennifer A. Dionne

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Magnetically steered cell therapy for reduction of intraocular pressure as a treatment strategy for open-angle glaucoma

1. M Reza Bahranifard
2. Jessica Chan
3. A Thomas Read
4. Guorong Li
5. Lin Cheng
6. Babak N Safa
7. Seyed Mohammad Siadat
8. Anamik Jhunjhunwala
9. Hans E Grossniklaus
10. Stanislav Y Emelianov
11. W Daniel Stamer
12. Markus H Kuehn
13. C Ross Ethier

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  eLife Assessment

  This study has fundamental findings that support the potential application of exogenous stem cell therapy as a viable therapeutic option for the management of intraocular pressure (IOP) and to increase outflow facility. The evidence supporting the clinical application of stem cells is compelling, using a combination of established in vivo and ex vivo experimental techniques. The work will be of interest to both basic stem cell biologists and clinical glaucoma specialists.

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AI.zymes: A Modular Platform for Evolutionary Enzyme Design

1. Lucas P. Merlicek
2. Jannik Neumann
3. Abbie Lear
4. Vivian Degiorgi
5. Moor M. de Waal
6. Tudor‐Stefan Cotet
7. Adrian J. Mulholland
8. H. Adrian Bunzel

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Antibody affinity engineering using antibody repertoire data and machine learning

1. Lena Erlach
2. Simon Friedensohn
3. Daniel Neumeier
4. Derek M. Mason
5. Sai T. Reddy

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3D Mechanical Confinement Directs Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function

1. GaYoung Park
2. Josh A. Grey
3. Foteini Mourkioti
4. Woojin M. Han

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Heart Scar-In-A-Dish: Tissue Culture Platform to Study Myocardial Infarct Healing In Vitro

1. MJ Potter
2. JD Heywood
3. SJ Coeyman
4. WJ Richardson

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Toward De Novo Protein Design from Natural Language

1. Fengyuan Dai
2. Shiyang You
3. Chentong Wang
4. Yuliang Fan
5. Jin Su
6. Chenchen Han
7. Xibin Zhou
8. Jianming Liu
9. Hui Qian
10. Shunzhi Wang
11. Anping Zeng
12. Yajie Wang
13. Hongyuan Lu
14. Fajie Yuan

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Self-Organizing Neural Networks in Novel Moving Bodies: Anatomical, Behavioral, and Transcriptional Characterization of a Living Construct with a Nervous System

1. Haleh Fotowat
2. Laurie O’Neill
3. Léo Pio-Lopez
4. Megan Sperry
5. Patrick Erickson
6. Tiffany Lin
7. Michael Levin

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Free-Form Microfluidic Microneedle Array Patches

1. Ian A. Coates
2. Madison M. Driskill
3. Netra U. Rajesh
4. Gabriel Lipkowitz
5. Dan Ilyin
6. Yue Xu
7. Maria T. Dulay
8. Gunilla B. Jacobson
9. Jillian L. Perry
10. Shaomin Tian
11. Joseph M. DeSimone

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Isolating Small Extracellular Vesicles from Small Volumes of Blood Plasma using size exclusion chromatography and density gradient ultracentrifugation: A Comparative Study

1. Fang Kong
2. Megha Upadya
3. Andrew See Wong Weng
4. Rinkoo Dalan
5. Ming Dao

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  eLife Assessment

  This work provides a simple, rapid and valuable protocol for the isolation of small extracellular vesicles from small volumes of plasma, using two well-known methodologies, in tandem: size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and density gradient ultracentrifugation (DGUC). The authors exhaustively test these methodologies separately and in combination, showing superior results for the SEC-DGUC in terms of purity and yield. The results obtained in this work are convincing, using multiple state-of-art methodologies for the characterization of the isolates that support their conclusions.

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