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2010 Nano-Biophotonics Summer School @ UIUC Lecture 5 - Biomedicine - A tour of the Cell
25 Sep 2010 | | Contributor(s):: Marina Marjanovic
Edited and Uploaded by Omar Sobh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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<i>In Vivo</i> Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopic Investigations of Structure and Function of Rodent Brain
30 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Anant B. Patel
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful and a versatile imaging modality for non-invasive characterization of host structure and function. MRI has grown in many directions such as functional MRI, diffusion tensor imaging, chemical shift imaging, which is used to detect single cells...
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Agent Based Active Matter Simulations with Mechanica
14 Nov 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Somogyi, Andy T
Mechanica is an interactive mesh-free, chemistry and biology simulation environment, with an emphasis towards enabling users to model and simulate complex sub-cellular and cellular biological physics problems. Mechanica is designed first and foremost to enable users to work interactively...
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Biology of COVID-19 Attack on Epithelial Cells, understood from a Modeling and Simulation Perspective
04 Feb 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Paul Macklin
n this session, we describe a community-driven effort to iteratively develop a multiscale, spatially-resolved open source model of SARS-CoV-2 dynamics and immune response in tissues.
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BME 695L Lecture 11: Assessing Nanotoxicity at the Single Cell Level
27 Oct 2011 | | Contributor(s):: James Leary
See references below for related reading.11.1 Need for single cell measures of nanotoxicity11.1.1 There is more than one way for a cell to die...11.1.2 "Necrosis" vs. "Apoptosis"11.1.3 There...
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BME 695L Lecture 12: Assessing Drug Efficacy and Nanotoxicity at the Single Cell Level
22 Nov 2011 | | Contributor(s):: James Leary
See references below for related reading.12.1 Introduction to measures of efficacy for nanomedicine12.1.1 for evaluation purposes, does structure/size reveal function?12.1.2 nanomedical treatment at the single cell...
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BME 695L Special Lecture 2: X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) in Biologically-Relevant Applications
01 Nov 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Dmitry Zemlyanov
Guest lecturer: Dmitry Zemlyanov
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BME 695L Special Lecture 4: Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) for Nanomedical Systems (cells and nanoparticles)
02 Dec 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally
Guest lecturer: Helen McNally
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BME 695N Lecture 12: Introduction to X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and the Examples of Biologically-Relevant Applications
19 Oct 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Dmitry Zemlyanov
With Dmitry Zemlyanov as guest lecturer.
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BME 695N Lecture 16: Assessing drug efficacy at the single cell level
02 Nov 2007 | | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Outline:Introduction and overviewNanomedical treatment at the single cell level requires evaluation at the single cell levelFor evaluation purposes, does structure reveal function?The difficulty of anything but simple functional assaysThe need for assays which at least show correlation to...
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BME 695N Lecture 17: Assessing nanotoxicity at the single cell level
06 Nov 2007 | | Contributor(s):: James Leary
Outline:Outline – the need for single cell measures of nanotoxicity There is more than one way for a cell to die... Necrosis" vs. "Apoptosis" There are other forms of "toxicity" Some other challenges in measuring toxicity of nanomaterialsNecrosis vs. Apoptosis mechanisms Necrosis is unplanned...
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BME 695N Lecture 9: Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) for Nanomedical Systems (cells and nanoparticles)
30 Sep 2007 | | Contributor(s):: Helen McNally
What Helen McNally as guest lecturer.
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Building & Testing a Component of Synthetic Genetic Circuit in Mammalian Cells
20 Aug 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Ariel Delos Reyes, Rice University
Oscillations in protein levels within cells help facilitate a variety of biological processes, from circadian rhythm to cell cycle progression. This research focuses on developing a platform for creating oscillatory circuits in mammalian cells by using several interrelated DNA constructs....
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Cell Factory for Small Molecule Inducible Delivery of Low Dose IL-2
31 Aug 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Celsa Pachlhofer, Yafet Arefeayne, Rice University
Autoimmune and inflammatory diseases are characterized by insufficient regulatory T cells (Treg), which play a central role in maintaining peripheral tolerance, preventing autoimmunity, and limiting chronic inflammation. Treg cells depend on IL-2 for survival and maintenance of their...
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CELL-MET Thrust Area 2 - Nanomechanics: Cell-Integrated Surface Plasmon Resonance
08 Feb 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Maedeh Mozneb, CELL-MET ERC
In this presentation, FIU graduate student Maedeh Mozneb explains her work on Nanomechanics in Chen-Zhong Li’s lab.
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CELL-MET Thrust Area 2: Nanomechanics: Mechanical Properties of Materials, Scaffolds and Cardiac Tissues
04 Apr 2019 | | Contributor(s):: Pranjal Nautiyal
In this presentation, FIU graduate student Pranjal Nautiyal explains his work on Nanomechanics in Arvind Agarwal's Lab.
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Cells: The Building Blocks of Life Learning Module
28 Aug 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides a review of "cells", the smallest unit exhibiting the properties of life. It discusses how these cells are being used in bioMEMS as well as other micro and nano-sized devices. A research activity provides the opportunity to further explore how...
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Cells: The Building Blocks of Life Learning Module - Instructor Guides
28 Aug 2017 | | Contributor(s):: Southwest Center for Microsystems Education (SCME)
This learning module provides a review of "cells", the smallest unit exhibiting the properties of life. It discusses how these cells are being used in bioMEMS as well as other micro and nano-sized devices. A research activity provides the opportunity to further explore how...
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Collective Sensing by Communicating Cells
22 Sep 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Andrew Mugler
In this talk I will describe recent theoretical and experimental results in which this question is explored in several contexts, including gradient detection by groups of epithelial cells. I will show how communication allows cells to perform qualitatively new behaviors that single cells cannot...
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CompuCell3D v4 Main Tool
08 Jun 2020 | | Contributor(s):: Juliano Ferrari Gianlupi, T.J. Sego
Base tool for CompuCell3D version 4 and greater. Allows running any of the demos included with CC3D (/CompuCell3D_Demos/Demos)