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Accessible and highly observable gastrointestinal organoid model systems for studying host-pathogen interactions
Traditional cell cultures have long been fundamental to biological research, offering an alternative to animal models burdened by ethical constraints and procedural intricacies, often lacking relevance to human physiology and disease. Moreover, their inabi ...
EPFL2024Compartmentalized PGRP expression along the dipteran Bactrocera dorsalis gut forms a zone of protection for symbiotic bacteria
Bruno Lemaitre, Yichen Wang, Ping Zhang
All metazoan guts are subject to opposing pressures wherein the immune system must eliminate pathogens while tolerating the presence of symbiotic microbiota. The Imd pathway is an essential defense against invading pathogens in insect guts, but tolerance m ...
Cambridge2022Highly motile nanoscale magnetic artificial cilia
Yves Bellouard, Tanveer Ul Islam
Among the many complex bioactuators functioning at different scales, the organelle cilium represents a fundamental actuating unit in cellular biology. Producing motions at submicrometer scales, dominated by viscous forces, cilia drive a number of crucial b ...
2021Patterning and mechanics of somite boundaries in zebrafish embryos
Andrew Charles Oates, Sundar Ram Naganathan
The body axis of vertebrates is subdivided into repetitive compartments called somites, which give rise primarily to the segmented architecture of the musculoskeletal system in the adult body. Somites form in a sequential and rhythmic manner in embryos and ...
2020When neighbours become competitors - Autotrophic assimilation rates of individual symbionts depend on local density when Stylophora pistillata is regularly fed
Anders Meibom, Thomas Krüger, Maoz Fine
The symbiosis between dinoflagellate microalgae and their cnidarian host represents the fundamental mechanism that allows zooxanthellate corals to access the inorganic nutrient pool of the surrounding seawater and conserve and recycle nutrients within thei ...
2017Structural basis for chirality and directional motility of Plasmodium sporozoites
Plasmodium sporozoites can move at high speed for several tens of minutes, which is essential for the initial stage of a malaria infection. The crescent-shaped sporozoites move on 2D substrates preferably in the same direction on circular paths giving rais ...
Wiley-Blackwell2012Interactome and reverse genetics studies of regulatory subunits of Plasmodium falciparum casein kinase
Malaria is the most devastating parasitic infection killing each year between 1 and 3 million of people. Furthermore this decease has a huge socio-economic impact in affected countries. The emergence of resistance against currently used drug makes the deve ...
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