Abstract "Rare CD4 T cells that contain HIV under antiretroviral therapy represent an important barrier to HIV cure, but the infeasibility of isolating and characterizing these cells in their natural state has led to uncertainty about whether they possess distinctive attributes that HIV cure-directed therapies might...
Abstract "Fungal cell-wall-degrading enzymes have great utility in the agricultural and food industries. These cell-wall-degrading enzymes are known to have functions that can help defend against pathogenic organisms. The existing methods used to discover these enzymes are not well adapted to fungi culture and morphology, which...
Abstract "Severe non-healing infections are often caused by multiple pathogens or by genetic variants of the same pathogen exhibiting different levels of antibiotic resistance. For example, polymicrobial diabetic foot infections double the risk of amputation compared to monomicrobial infections. Although these infections lead to increased morbidity...
Abstract "Typical microfluidic devices are application-specific and have to be carefully designed to implement the necessary functionalities for the targeted application. Programmable microfluidic chips try to overcome this by offering reconfigurable functionalities, allowing the same chip to be used in multiple different applications. In this work,...
The spatial organization and cellular microenvironment of the cells can be very important when it comes to RNA sequencing. Therefore, preserving the spatial organization of the cells and monitoring the changes in the cellular surrounding can be crucial for transcriptomic profiling. Droplet-based microfluidics is an...