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FLUKA is a general purpose Monte Carlo code able to describe the transport and interaction of any particle and nucleus type in complex geometries over an energy range extending from thermal neutrons to ultrarelativistic hadron collisions. It has many diffe ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Fighting preterm birth with novel surgical tools and biomaterials engineering

Yannick Robert Devaud

With advances in fetal diagnosis and therapy, fetoscopy has become a good option to treat a series of life threatening diseases like twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome or severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The efficacy of fetoscopy for those types of d ...

EPFL2017

Inequality in genetic cancer risk suggests bad genes rather than bad luck

Mats Julius Stensrud

Heritability is often estimated by decomposing the variance of a trait into genetic and other factors. Interpreting such variance decompositions, however, is not straightforward. In particular, there is an ongoing debate on the importance of genetic factor ...

2017

Engineered cell instructive matrices for fetal membrane healing

Martin Ehrbar

Iatrogenic preterm prelabour rupture of fetal membranes (iPPROM) occurs in 6-45% of the cases after fetoscopic procedures, posing a significant threat to fetal survival and well-being. The number of diagnostic and therapeutic prenatal interventions availab ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Tissue engineering for prenatal applications

Anna-Sofia Johanna Kiveliö

Fetal therapies have become available for a restricted number of life-threatening clinical conditions. Harnessing tissue engineering for prenatal applications has not been widely pursued even though isolating cells from fetal and extraembryonic tissues has ...

EPFL2015

Assessing dystrophies and other muscle diseases at the nanometer scale by atomic force microscopy

Giovanni Dietler, Harald Brune, Andrzej Kulik, Nicolas Mermod, Guillaume Witz, Stefania Puttini

Aim: Atomic force microscopy nanoindentation of myofibers was used to assess and quantitatively diagnose muscular dystrophies from human patients. Materials & methods: Myofibers were probed from fresh or frozen muscle biopsies from human dystrophic patient ...

Future Medicine2014

VEGFR-3 Neutralization Inhibits Ovarian Lymphangiogenesis, Follicle Maturation, and Murine Pregnancy

Didier Trono, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Melody Swartz, Witold Waldemar Kilarski, Joseph Rutkowski, Seung Tae Lee, Miriella Carmela Pasquier, Jong Eun Ihm, Vivianne Greenwood

Lymphatic vessels surround follicles within the ovary, but their roles in folliculogenesis and pregnancy, as well as the necessity of Lymphangiogenesis in follicle maturation and health, are undefined. We used systemic delivery of mF4-31C1, a specific anta ...

Elsevier Science Inc2013

Defining new criteria for selection of cell-based intestinal models using publicly available databases

Michel Aguet, Mauro Delorenzi, Pascale Anderle Pedone, Thierry Sengstag

Background: The criteria for choosing relevant cell lines among a vast panel of available intestinal-derived lines exhibiting a wide range of functional properties are still ill-defined. The objective of this study was, therefore, to establish objective cr ...

BioMed Central2012

Quantitative morphometry analysis of the fetal brain using clinical MR imaging

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Marie Schaer, Gabriele Vincenzo Bonanno

In vivo fetal magnetic resonance imaging provides a unique approach for the study of early human brain development [1]. In utero cerebral morphometry could potentially be used as a marker of the cerebral maturation and help to distinguish between normal an ...

2011

Human fetal bone cells in delivery systems for bone engineering

Dominique Pioletti, Corinne Scaletta, Sandra Jaccoud, Nathalie Hirt-Burri

The aim of this study was to culture human fetal bone cells (dedicated cell banks of fetal bone derived from 14 week gestation femurs) within both hyaluronic acid gel and collagen foam, to compare the biocompatibility of both matrices as potential delivery ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

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