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Digital reconstruction of the mammalian spinal cord: from anatomical reference volume to cell type atlas of the mouse spinal cord

The spinal cord is an elongated nervous structure that together with the brain forms the central nervous system. It relays sensory and motor information between the brain and the body, thus controlling most somatic and autonomic body functions. In recent y ...

EPFL2023

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

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

The Channel-Activating Protease CAP1/Prss8 Is Required for Placental Labyrinth Maturation

Friedrich Beermann, Simona Frateschi, Roch-Philippe Charles, Aline Dousse

The serine protease CAP1/Prss8 is crucial for skin barrier function, lung alveolar fluid clearance and has been unveiled as diagnostic marker for specific cancer types. Here, we show that a constitutive knockout of CAP1/Prss8 leads to embryonic lethality. ...

Public Library of Science2013

Defect levels of dangling bonds in silicon and germanium through hybrid functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Peter Broqvist, Audrius Alkauskas

Defect levels of dangling bonds in silicon and germanium are determined within their respective band gaps through the use of hybrid density functionals. To validate our approach, we first considered the dangling bond in silicon finding two well-separated d ...

2008

Charge transition levels of the Ge dangling bond defect at Ge/insulator interfaces

Alfredo Pasquarello, Peter Broqvist, Audrius Alkauskas

We calculate defect levels of dangling bonds in germanium using hybrid density functionals. To validate our approach, we first consider the dangling bond in silicon finding two well-separated defect levels, in excellent correspondence with their experiment ...

2008

Oxygen vacancy in monoclinic HfO2: A consistent interpretation of trap assisted conduction, direct electron injection, and optical absorption experiments

Alfredo Pasquarello, Peter Broqvist

The authors calculate energy levels associated with the oxygen vacancy in monoclinic HfO2 using a hybrid density functional which accurately reproduces the experimental band gap. The most stable charge states are obtained for varying Fermi level in the HfO ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2006