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Buckling instabilities and spatio-temporal dynamics of active elastic filaments

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Numerical and experimental investigation of spiral-grooved gas journal bearings

Small-scale turbomachinery is increasingly used in carbon-free energy conversion systems, such as commercial or domestic scale heat pumps, fuels cells for transportation and waste heat recovery. The usage of aerodynamic bearings allows the design of compac ...

EPFL2022

System for planning and/or providing neuromodulation

Grégoire Courtine, Vincent Delattre, Marco Capogrosso, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Karen Minassian

The present invention relates to systems and methods for planning and/or providing neuromodulation One example system includesa stimulation related basic data storage module for storing stimulation related basic data,a stimulation related response data sto ...

2021

Analysis and Modeling of the Dynamics of Traction Forces during Cell Polarization and their Role in the Organization of Edge Activity

Zeno Messi

The capacity to break symmetry and organize activity to move directionally is a fundamental property of eukaryotic cells. To explain the organization of cell-edge activity, models commonly rely on front-to-back gradients of functional components or regulat ...

EPFL2021

On the ‘cultural transfer’ of modern architecture northwards - Akzeptiere: Das Buch und seine Geschichte

Chiara Monterumisi

"Akzeptiere: Das Buch und seine Geschichte" is the latest in-depth contribution by Atli Magnus Seelow, one of several by him on the 1930 Stockholm exhibition and the book accepetera, the 200-page text often referred to as ‘the manifesto of Swedish function ...

2021

Discourse Phenomena in Machine Translation

Lesly Sadiht Miculicich Werlen

Machine Translation (MT) has made considerable progress in the past two decades, particularly after the introduction of neural network models (NMT). During this time, the research community has mostly focused on modeling and evaluating MT systems at the se ...

EPFL2021

Akt Is S-Palmitoylated: A New Layer of Regulation for Akt

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Laurence Gouzi Abrami

The protein kinase Akt/PKB participates in a great variety of processes, including translation, cell proliferation and survival, as well as malignant transformation and viral infection. In the last few years, novel Akt posttranslational modifications have ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data

Florent Gérard Krzakala, Lenka Zdeborová, Maria Refinetti, Indaco Biazzo, Giovanni Catania

Contact tracing is an essential tool to mitigate the impact of a pandemic, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to achieve efficient and scalable contact tracing in real time, digital devices can play an important role. While a lot of attention has been ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Towards an artificial cell: Development of a system which self-regenerates the protein components of the PURE system in microfluidic reactors

Barbora Lavickova

Thanks to recent advancements in synthetic biology, the dream of creating a synthetic cell has become feasible. However, due to its inherent complexity, one of the fundamental functions of all living systems, i.e., self-replication, remains to be introduce ...

EPFL2021

Organic semiconductors for light-mediated neuromodulation

Diego Ghezzi, Danashi Imani Medagoda

There is growing interest in organic semiconductor devices for light-mediated neuromodulation, such as for retinal stimulation. Here, the key working principles of these devices are discussed, as well as promising applications and outstanding challenges fo ...

SPRINGERNATURE2021

In Vitro-Evolved Peptides Bind Monomeric Actin and Mimic Actin-Binding Protein Thymosin-β4

Christian Heinis, Jonas Alfred Karl Wilbs, Davide Bertoldo, Ganesh Kumar Mothukuri, Raphael Johannes Gübeli

Actin is the most abundant protein in eukaryotic cells and is key to many cellular functions. The filamentous form of actin (F-actin) can be studied with help of natural products that specifically recognize it, as for example fluorophore-labeled probes of ...

2021