Soft actuators for soft robotic applications: A review

N El-Atab, RB Mishra, F Al-Modaf… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, grip**, human …

RNA-Seq differential expression analysis: An extended review and a software tool

J Costa-Silva, D Domingues, FM Lopes - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The correct identification of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between specific
conditions is a key in the understanding phenotypic variation. High-throughput transcriptome …

Genetic control of RNA splicing and its distinct role in complex trait variation

T Qi, Y Wu, H Fang, F Zhang, S Liu, J Zeng, J Yang - Nature genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Most genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in humans
are noncoding, indicating their role in gene regulation. Previous studies have shown …

Obesity alters pathology and treatment response in inflammatory disease

SP Bapat, C Whitty, CT Mowery, Y Liang, A Yoo… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Decades of work have elucidated cytokine signalling and transcriptional pathways that
control T cell differentiation and have led the way to targeted biologic therapies that are …

Context-aware transcript quantification from long-read RNA-seq data with Bambu

Y Chen, A Sim, YK Wan, K Yeo, JJX Lee, MH Ling… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Most approaches to transcript quantification rely on fixed reference annotations; however,
the transcriptome is dynamic and depending on the context, such static annotations contain …

Single-cell RNA counting at allele and isoform resolution using Smart-seq3

M Hagemann-Jensen, C Ziegenhain, P Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Large-scale sequencing of RNA from individual cells can reveal patterns of gene, isoform
and allelic expression across cell types and states. However, current short-read single-cell …

Immune-evasive human islet-like organoids ameliorate diabetes

E Yoshihara, C O'Connor, E Gasser, Z Wei, TG Oh… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Islets derived from stem cells hold promise as a therapy for insulin-dependent diabetes, but
there remain challenges towards achieving this goal,,,,–. Here we generate human islet-like …

TBtools: an integrative toolkit developed for interactive analyses of big biological data

C Chen, H Chen, Y Zhang, HR Thomas, MH Frank… - Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
The rapid development of high-throughput sequencing techniques has led biology into the
big-data era. Data analyses using various bioinformatics tools rely on programming and …

Laboratory mice born to wild mice have natural microbiota and model human immune responses

SP Rosshart, J Herz, BG Vassallo, A Hunter, MK Wall… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Laboratory mice are a mainstay of biomedical research and have been
instrumental for many important discoveries in the field of immunology. However, there are …

m6A mRNA methylation regulates AKT activity to promote the proliferation and tumorigenicity of endometrial cancer

J Liu, MA Eckert, BT Harada, SM Liu, Z Lu, K Yu… - Nature cell …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract N 6-methyladenosine (m6A) messenger RNA methylation is a gene regulatory
mechanism affecting cell differentiation and proliferation in development and cancer. To …