Building digital twins of the human immune system: toward a roadmap

R Laubenbacher, A Niarakis, T Helikar, G An… - NPJ digital …, 2022 - nature.com
Digital twins, customized simulation models pioneered in industry, are beginning to be
deployed in medicine and healthcare, with some major successes, for instance in …

Mechanistic modeling of SARS‐CoV‐2 and other infectious diseases and the effects of therapeutics

AS Perelson, R Ke - Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Modern viral kinetic modeling and its application to therapeutics is a field that attracted the
attention of the medical, pharmaceutical, and modeling communities during the early days of …

Using digital twins in viral infection

R Laubenbacher, JP Sluka, JA Glazier - Science, 2021 - science.org
When the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic
emerged in 2019, researchers rapidly recalibrated epidemiological computer models …

The initial interplay between HIV and mucosal innate immunity

V Caputo, M Libera, S Sisti, B Giuliani… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is still one of the major global health issues, and
despite significant efforts that have been put into studying the pathogenesis of HIV infection …

Current and prospective computational approaches and challenges for developing COVID-19 vaccines

W Hwang, W Lei, NM Katritsis, M MacMahon… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, was first identified in humans in late 2019
and is a coronavirus which is zoonotic in origin. As it spread around the world there has …

Intracellular life cycle kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 predicted using mathematical modelling

D Grebennikov, E Kholodareva, I Sazonov… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection represents a global threat to human health. Various approaches were
employed to reveal the pathogenetic mechanisms of COVID-19. Mathematical and …

Spatially distributed infection increases viral load in a computational model of SARS-CoV-2 lung infection

ME Moses, S Hofmeyr, JL Cannon… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
A key question in SARS-CoV-2 infection is why viral loads and patient outcomes vary
dramatically across individuals. Because spatial-temporal dynamics of viral spread and …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale model of antiviral timing, potency, and heterogeneity effects on an epithelial tissue patch infected by SARS-CoV-2

J Ferrari Gianlupi, T Mapder, TJ Sego, JP Sluka… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
We extend our established agent-based multiscale computational model of infection of lung
tissue by SARS-CoV-2 to include pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic models of …

Biophysical models of early mammalian embryogenesis

A Cockerell, L Wright, A Dattani, G Guo, A Smith… - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Embryo development is a critical and fascinating stage in the life cycle of many organisms.
Despite decades of research, the earliest stages of mammalian embryogenesis are still …

Spatial information allows inference of the prevalence of direct cell–to–cell viral infection

T Williams, JM McCaw, JM Osborne - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The role of direct cell–to–cell spread in viral infections—where virions spread between host
and susceptible cells without needing to be secreted into the extracellular environment—has …