Modeling barrier properties of intestinal mucus reinforced with IgG and secretory IgA against motile bacteria

F Xu, JM Newby, JL Schiller, HA Schroeder… - ACS infectious …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is lined with a layer of viscoelastic mucus gel, characterized by
a dense network of entangled and cross-linked mucins together with an abundance of …

Effective exploration behavior for chemical-sensing robots

K Nickels, H Nguyen, D Frasch, T Davison - Biomimetics, 2019 - mdpi.com
Mobile robots that can effectively detect chemical effluents could be useful in a variety of
situations, such as disaster relief or drug sniffing. Such a robot might mimic biological …

Global quantitative understanding of yeast's fate decision making in response to sexual deception

S Li, Q Liu, E Wang, J Wang - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Cell cycle arrest and polarized cell growth are commonly used to qualitatively characterize
the yeast's fate in response to sexual deception. Biologically, the cellular decisions …

Effects of Advective-Diffusive Transport of Multiple Chemoattractants on Motility of Engineered Chemosensory Particles in Fluidic Environments

D King, H Başağaoğlu, H Nguyen, F Healy, M Whitman… - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Motility behavior of an engineered chemosensory particle (ECP) in fluidic environments is
driven by its responses to chemical stimuli. One of the challenges to understanding such …