Synthetic development: building mammalian multicellular structures with artificial genetic programs

M Santorelli, C Lam, L Morsut - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Synthetic biology efforts began in simple single-cell systems, which were relatively easy to
manipulate genetically (Cameron et al., 2014). The field grew exponentially in the last two …

[HTML][HTML] Mathematical and computational models in spheroid-based biofabrication

S Arjoca, A Robu, M Neagu, A Neagu - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous in embryonic development, tissue fusion is of interest to tissue engineers who
use tissue spheroids or organoids as building blocks of three-dimensional (3D) multicellular …

PhysiBoSS: a multi-scale agent-based modelling framework integrating physical dimension and cell signalling

G Letort, A Montagud, G Stoll, R Heiland… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Due to the complexity and heterogeneity of multicellular biological systems,
mathematical models that take into account cell signalling, cell population behaviour and the …

Modeling of xenobiotic transport and metabolism in virtual hepatic lobule models

X Fu, JP Sluka, SG Clendenon, KW Dunn, Z Wang… - PLoS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Computational models of normal liver function and xenobiotic induced liver damage are
increasingly being used to interpret in vitro and in vivo data and as an approach to the de …

Metabolic reprogramming dynamics in tumor spheroids: Insights from a multicellular, multiscale model

M Roy, SD Finley - PLoS computational biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Mathematical modeling provides the predictive ability to understand the metabolic
reprogramming and complex pathways that mediate cancer cells' proliferation. We present a …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid computational models of multicellular tumour growth considering glucose metabolism

IG Gonçalves, JM García-Aznar - Computational and Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer cells metabolize glucose through metabolic pathways that differ from those used by
healthy and differentiated cells. In particular, tumours have been shown to consume more …

Computational model of wound healing: EGF secreted by fibroblasts promotes delayed re-epithelialization of epithelial keratinocytes

V Andasari, D Lü, M Swat, S Feng, F Spill… - Integrative …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
It is widely agreed that keratinocyte migration plays a crucial role in wound re-
epithelialization. Defects in this function contribute to wound reoccurrence causing …

Linking gene regulation to cell behaviors in the posterior growth zone of sequentially segmenting arthropods

TA Williams, LM Nagy - Arthropod structure & development, 2017 - Elsevier
Virtually all arthropods all arthropods add their body segments sequentially, one by one in
an anterior to posterior progression. That process requires not only segment specification …

A hybrid discrete–continuous model of metastatic cancer cell migration through a remodeling extracellular matrix

YT Nguyen Edalgo, AL Zornes… - AIChE Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A major cause of cancer mortality is metastasis of cancer cells from a localized tumor to
other parts of the body. The interactions between cancer cells and the surrounding tumor …

Development of a scoring function for comparing simulated and experimental tumor spheroids

J Herold, E Behle, J Rosenbauer… - PLoS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Progress continues in the field of cancer biology, yet much remains to be unveiled regarding
the mechanisms of cancer invasion. In particular, complex biophysical mechanisms enable …