Publications by authors named "Boi Quach"

This paper introduces the DERCo (Dublin EEG-based Reading Experiment Corpus), a language resource combining electroencephalography (EEG) and next-word prediction data obtained from participants reading narrative texts. The dataset comprises behavioral data collected from 500 participants recruited through the Amazon Mechanical Turk online crowd-sourcing platform, along with EEG recordings from 22 healthy adult native English speakers. The online experiment was designed to examine the context-based word prediction by a large sample of participants, while the EEG-based experiment was developed to extend the validation of behavioral next-word predictability.

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Neoantigens are peptides derived from non-synonymous mutations presented by human leukocyte antigens (HLAs), which are recognized by antitumour T cells. The large HLA allele diversity and limiting clinical samples have restricted the study of the landscape of neoantigen-targeted T cell responses in patients over their treatment course. Here we applied recently developed technologies to capture neoantigen-specific T cells from blood and tumours from patients with metastatic melanoma with or without response to anti-programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1) immunotherapy.

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Article Synopsis
  • T cell receptors (TCRs) are crucial for T cells to detect cancer cell mutations, and researchers used a CRISPR-Cas9 method to edit TCR genes in a clinical trial setting.
  • Sixteen patients with advanced solid cancers received personalized T cell therapies featuring engineered neoTCRs, with most participants experiencing either stable disease or disease progression.
  • The study confirmed that it is feasible to create multiple engineered TCRs, showing the safety and effectiveness of infusing gene-edited T cells that can successfully target tumors.
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Leukocyte-endothelial adhesion is a critical early step in chronic vascular inflammation associated with diabetes, emphysema, and aging. Importantly, these conditions are also marked by abnormal subendothelial matrix crosslinking (stiffness). Yet, whether and how abnormal matrix stiffness contributes to leukocyte-endothelial adhesion remains poorly understood.

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