Abstract: Spatial organization is a characteristic of all cells, achieved in eukaryotic cells by utilizing both membrane-bound and membrane-less organelles. One of the key processes in eukaryotes is RNA splicing, which readies mRNA for translation. This complex and highly dynamical…
Introduction: Intrinsic breast cancer subtypes (e.g., Normal-like, Luminal A/B, HER2-enriched, Triple Negative) vary in their responsiveness to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and are associated with differing long-term prognosis. Expression dis-regulation of critical regulatory pathways partially accounts for variance in cancer phenotype…
Introduction: Finalizing the treatment plan to utilize on a cancer patient continues to be a collaborative process between the patient and clinician, often with input from the patient’s family. By referencing the tumor size and location from radiology reports and…
Background: A single neuron cannot think, just as a single hepatocyte cannot filter blood. The functions of the tissues that make up our bodies are emergent, depending on both their constituent cells’ internal biology, as well as how they interact…
Introduction: When considering the use of NACT for breast cancer, healthcare providers and patients must weigh the risks associated with different potential standard of care (SoC) treatment regimens against the likelihood of achieving a desired outcome. The decision of treatment…
Abstract: JCVI-syn3A, a robust minimal cell with a 543 kbp genome and 493 genes, provides a versatile platform to study the basics of life. Using the vast amount of experimental information available on its precursor, Mycoplasma mycoides capri, we assembled…
Abstract: The plasma membrane of the cell is a complex, tightly regulated, heterogeneous environment shaped by proteins, lipids, and small molecules. Ca2+ ions are important cellular messengers, spatially separated from anionic lipids. After cell injury, disease, or apoptotic events, anionic…
Abstract: Background Recent results from single cell gene and protein regulation studies are starting to uncover the previously underappreciated fact that individual cells within a population exhibit high variability in the expression of mRNA and proteins (i.e., molecular variability). By…
Abstract: Using protein counts sampled from single cell proteomics distributions to constrain fluxes through a genome-scale model of metabolism, Population flux balance analysis (Population FBA) successfully described metabolic heterogeneity in a population of independent Escherichia coli cells growing in a…
Abstract: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a debilitating complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) that leads to thousands of injuries, amputations, and deaths each year. The use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) as a regenerative therapy holds the promise of regrowing…