Search Results - "Gaffney, A"
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Sub-ice-shelf sediments record history of twentieth-century retreat of Pine Island Glacier
Published in Nature (London) (05-01-2017)“…Many glaciers and ice shelves in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are retreating or thinning rapidly, but the triggering mechanism has been unclear; now, the…”
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Flagellar ultrastructure suppresses buckling instabilities and enables mammalian sperm navigation in high-viscosity media
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (01-03-2019)“…Eukaryotic flagellar swimming is driven by a slender motile unit, the axoneme, which possesses an internal structure that is essentially conserved in a…”
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Hydrodynamic Clustering of Human Sperm in Viscoelastic Fluids
Published in Scientific reports (22-10-2018)“…We have numerically investigated sperm clustering behaviours, modelling cells as superpositions of regularised flow singularities, coarse-grained from…”
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A study of spermatozoan swimming stability near a surface
Published in Journal of theoretical biology (07-11-2014)“…The swimming stability of spermatozoa with a specified planar beat pattern in the presence of a no-slip flat surface is explored in a modelling study…”
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Coarse-Graining the Fluid Flow around a Human Sperm
Published in Physical review letters (24-03-2017)“…The flagellar beat is extracted from human sperm digital imaging microscopy and used to determine the flow around the cell and its trajectory, via boundary…”
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Microbial competition in porous environments can select against rapid biofilm growth
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-01-2017)“…Microbes often live in dense communities called biofilms, where competition between strains and species is fundamental to both evolution and community…”
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Fluid flow and sperm guidance: a simulation study of hydrodynamic sperm rheotaxis
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (06-05-2015)“…How does a sperm find its way? The study of guidance cues has fascinated sperm biologists and in particular the prospect of rheotaxis, that is a fluid flow…”
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Introduction to 'Recent progress and open frontiers in Turing's theory of morphogenesis'
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (27-12-2021)“…Elucidating pattern forming processes is an important problem in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. Turing's contribution, after being initially…”
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Ultraviolet surprise: Efficient soft x-ray high-harmonic generation in multiply ionized plasmas
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (04-12-2015)“…High-harmonic generation is a universal response of matter to strong femtosecond laser fields, coherently upconverting light to much shorter wavelengths…”
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Patterns of bacterial motility in microfluidics-confining environments
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-04-2021)“…Understanding the motility behavior of bacteria in confining microenvironments, in which they search for available physical space and move in response to…”
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A simulation study of sperm motility hydrodynamics near fish eggs and spheres
Published in Journal of theoretical biology (21-01-2016)“…For teleost fish fertilisation, sperm must proceed through a small opening on the egg surface, referred to as the micropyle. In this paper, we have used…”
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A method for the inference of cytokine interaction networks
Published in PLoS computational biology (01-06-2022)“…Cell-cell communication is mediated by many soluble mediators, including over 40 cytokines. Cytokines, e.g. TNF, IL1 β , IL5, IL6, IL12 and IL23, represent…”
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Absolute Equation-of-State Measurement for Polystyrene from 25 to 60 Mbar Using a Spherically Converging Shock Wave
Published in Physical review letters (13-07-2018)“…We have developed an experimental platform for the National Ignition Facility that uses spherically converging shock waves for absolute equation-of-state (EOS)…”
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Feather arrays are patterned by interacting signalling and cell density waves
Published in PLoS biology (21-02-2019)“…Feathers are arranged in a precise pattern in avian skin. They first arise during development in a row along the dorsal midline, with rows of new feather buds…”
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Technical factors involved in the measurement of circulating microRNA biomarkers for the detection of colorectal neoplasia
Published in PloS one (18-11-2014)“…Circulating miRNAs are emerging as promising blood-based biomarkers for colorectal and other human cancers; however, technical factors that confound the…”
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counterbend phenomenon in flagellar axonemes and cross-linked filament bundles
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (23-07-2013)“…Recent observations of flagellar counterbend in sea urchin sperm show that the mechanical induction of curvature in one part of a passive flagellum induces a…”
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Ocular Pharmacokinetics of Therapeutic Antibodies Given by Intravitreal Injection: Estimation of Retinal Permeabilities Using a 3‑Compartment Semi-Mechanistic Model
Published in Molecular pharmaceutics (07-08-2017)“…Intravitreally (IVT) injected macromolecules for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration must permeate through the inner limiting membrane (ILM) into…”
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Turing's model for biological pattern formation and the robustness problem
Published in Interface focus (06-08-2012)“…One of the fundamental questions in developmental biology is how the vast range of pattern and structure we observe in nature emerges from an almost uniformly…”
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Comparison of transversus abdominis plane block vs spinal morphine for pain relief after Caesarean section
Published in British journal of anaesthesia : BJA (01-05-2011)“…Transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block is an alternative to spinal morphine for analgesia after Caesarean section but there are few data on its comparative…”
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Modelling Motility: The Mathematics of Spermatozoa
Published in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology (20-07-2021)“…In one of the first examples of how mechanics can inform axonemal mechanism, Machin's study in the 1950s highlighted that observations of sperm motility cannot…”
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