Quantitative Biology
The differentiation between pathological subtypes of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is an essential step in guiding treatment options and prognosis. However, current clinical practice relies on multi-step staining and labelling…
Coping with stress is one of the most frequently cited reasons for chronic cannabis use. Therefore, it is hypothesized that cannabis users exhibit distinct physiological stress responses compared to non-users, and these differences would be…
Understanding the property of neural populations (or voxels) in the human brain can advance our comprehension of human perceptual and cognitive processing capabilities and contribute to developing brain-inspired computer models. Recent…
The proliferation of wearable sensors and monitoring technologies has created a need for standardized sensor placement protocols. While existing standards like the Surface Electromyography for Non-Invasive Assessment of Muscles (SENIAM)…
We propose here a multiscale model for study the effect of combined therapies on glioma spread in the brain under the influence of vascularization. The model accounts for the interplay between the different components of the neoplasm and…
Designing messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences for a fixed target protein requires searching an exponentially large synonymous space while optimizing properties that affect stability and downstream performance. This is challenging because…
Electroporation is increasingly used as a percutaneous ablation technique for tumours located near vital structures. Although effective, tumour regrowth may still occur. At the same time, in vitro studies on cell monolayers have shown that…
With significant population fractions in many societies who refuse vaccines, it is important to reconsider how vaccination is incorporated into compartmental epidemiology models. It is still most common to apply the vaccination rate to the…
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system whose molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood. In this study, we developed an end-to-end machine learning pipeline to analyze transcriptomic…
Collaborative training across multiple institutions is becoming essential for building reliable medical image segmentation models. However, privacy regulations, data silos, and uneven data availability prevent hospitals from sharing raw…
Confounding pathology with normal anatomical variation remains a significant challenge in unsupervised medical-image anomaly detection, resulting in numerous false positives. To enhance integration of healthy variation, we augment the…
When biological foundation models such as scGPT and Geneformer process single-cell gene expression, what geometric and topological structure forms in their internal representations? Is that structure biologically meaningful or a training…
Saliency maps are increasingly used as design guidance in siRNA efficacy prediction, yet attribution methods are rarely validated before motivating sequence edits. We introduce a pre-synthesis gate: a protocol for counterfactual sensitivity…
Rare disease diagnosis requires matching variant-bearing genes to complex patient phenotypes across large and heterogeneous evidence sources. This process remains time-intensive in current clinical interpretation pipelines. To overcome…
T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is a central component of adaptive immunity, with implications for vaccine design, cancer immunotherapy, and autoimmune disease. While recent advances in machine learning…
Recent remarkable advancements in geometric deep generative models, coupled with accumulated structural data, enable structure-based drug design (SBDD) using only target protein information. However, existing models often struggle to…
A dramatic increase in the number of outbreaks of Dengue has recently been reported, and climate change is likely to extend the geographical spread of the disease. In this context, this paper shows how a neural network approach can…
Reaching for grasping, and manipulating objects are essential motor functions in everyday life. Decoding human motor intentions is a central challenge for rehabilitation and assistive technologies. This study focuses on predicting…
Hippocampal neurons track positions of self, others, and gaze direction. However, it is unclear how their respective neural codes differ enough to avoid confusion while allowing for abstraction. We recorded from populations of hippocampal…
Standard accounts of memory consolidation emphasise the stabilisation of stored representations, but struggle to explain representational drift, semanticisation, or the necessity of offline replay. Here we propose that high-capacity…