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Organotypic models of patient-specific tumours are revolutionizing our understanding of cancer heterogeneity and its implications for personalized medicine. These advancements are, in part, attributed to the ability of organoid models to stably preserve ge ...

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Imaging-based spectrometer-less optofluidic biosensors based on dielectric metasurfaces for detecting extracellular vesicles

Hatice Altug, Michele De Palma, Filiz Yesilköy, Chiara Cianciaruso, Yasaman Jahani, Eduardo Romero Arvelo

Biosensors are indispensable tools for public, global, and personalized healthcare as they provide tests that can be used from early disease detection and treatment monitoring to preventing pandemics. We introduce single-wavelength imaging biosensors capab ...

2021

Engineering next generation organoids through guided stem cell self-organisation

Mikhail Nikolaev

One of the long-standing goals in the field of tissue engineering is the fabrication of de novo tissues or even organs to provide better tissue models for basic research and drug discovery, and to alleviate a shortage of donor organs in the future. Resear ...

EPFL2021

Wearable multi-electrode platform for ion sensing

Francesca Criscuolo

With the growth of personalized medicine and e-Health, there has been an increasing interest in the development of accurate sensing systems able to support this healthcare revolution for both in- and off-hospital monitoring. Remote biosensing devices can d ...

EPFL2020

Mouse Systems Genetics as a Prelude to Precision Medicine

Johan Auwerx, Hao Li

Mouse models have been instrumental in understanding human disease biology and proposing possible new treatments. The precise control of the environment and genetic composition of mice allows more rigorous observations, but limits the generalizability and ...

2020

Parallel and Scalable Bioinformatics

Stuart Anthony Byma

The field of genomics is likely to become the largest producer of data as a consequence of the large-scale application of next-generation sequencing technology for biological research and personalized medical treatments. The raw sequence data produced by t ...

EPFL2020

Detecting DNA and RNA and Differentiating Single-Nucleotide Variations via Field-Effect Transistors

Nako Nakatsuka, Yang Yang, Bowen Zhu

We detect short oligonucleotides and distinguish between sequences that differ by a single base, using label-free, electronic field-effect transistors (FETs). Our sensing platform utilizes ultrathin-film indium oxide FETs chemically functionalized with sin ...

2020

Patient‐specific logic models of signaling pathways from screenings on cancer biopsies to prioritize personalized combination therapies

Christoph Merten

Mechanistic modeling of signaling pathways mediating patient-specific response to therapy can help to unveil resistance mecha-nisms and improve therapeutic strategies. Yet, creating suchmodels for patients, in particular for solid malignancies, is chal-len ...

2020

Algorithms and flowchart for the design of synthetic biochemical networks

Homa Mohammadi Peyhani

New drugs are needed to assure effective therapies for previously untreated diseases, emerging diseases, and personalized medicine, but the process of drug development is complex, costly, and time-consuming. This is especially problematic considering that ...

EPFL2020

Trametinib Induces the Stabilization of a Dual GNAQ p.Gly48Leu-and FGFR4 p.Cys172Gly-Mutated Uveal Melanoma. The Role of Molecular Modelling in Personalized Oncology

Krisztian Homicsko, Olivier Michielin, Alexandre Wicky

We report a case of an uveal melanoma patient with GNAQ p.Gly48Leu who responded to MEK inhibition. At the time of the molecular analysis, the pathogenicity of the mutation was unknown. A tridimensional structural analysis showed that G alpha(q) can adopt ...

2020

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