Recent BI Publications

Advanced Materials and Drug Delivery

• Rational design of transparent nanowire architectures with tunable geometries for preventing marine fouling (Tuteja)
• Effect of nanoparticle composition, size, shape, and stiffness on penetration across the blood-brain barrier (Lahann)

Cell and Tissue Engineering

• Dissecting murine muscle stem cell aging through regeneration using integrative genomic analysis (Aguilar)
• Dual-isolation and profiling of circulating tumor cells and cancer exosomes from blood samples with melanoma using immunoaffinity-based microfluidic interfaces (S. Nagrath)
• Engineered immunological niches to monitor disease activity and treatment efficacy in relapsing multiple sclerosis (Shea)
• Extracellular vesicles on demand (EVOD) chip for screening and quantification of cancer-associated extracellular vesicles (S. Nagrath)
• Modeling, identification, and flow control for a microfluidic device using a peristaltic pump (S. Nagrath)
• Preclinical assessment of clinically streamlined, 3D‐printed, biocompatible single‐ and two‐stage tissue scaffolds for ear reconstruction (Lombaert)
• Regulation of adipose tissue inflammation and systemic metabolism in murine obesity by polymer implants loaded with lentiviral vectors encoding human interleukin‐4 (Shea)
• Resolvin D1 supports skeletal myofiber regeneration via actions on myeloid and muscle stem cells (Aguilar)

Nanotechnology

• A mean-field approach to simulating anisotropic particles (Glotzer)
• Analysis of partitioning of salt through doping of polyelectrolyte complex coacervates (Larson)
• Biomorphic structural batteries for robotics (Kotov)
• Differential effects of heated perfusate on morphology, viability, and dissemination of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms (Solomon & VanEpps)
• Hybrid antimicrobial hydrogel as injectable therapeutics for oral infection ablation (A. Schwendeman)
• Inverse design of compression-induced solid – solid transitions in colloids (Glotzer)

Neural Engineering

• A low-power band of neuronal spiking activity dominated by local single units improves the performance of brain–machine interfaces (Chestek)
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging correlates of ventral striatal deep brain stimulation for poststroke pain (Lempka)
• High density carbon fiber arrays for chronic electrophysiology, fast scan cyclic voltammetry, and correlative anatomy (Chestek)
• Magnetic resonance imaging of human neural stem cells in rodent and primate brain (Chestek)