Publications by authors named "E N I Weeks"

Article Synopsis
  • - Antibodies are generated by naive B cells turning into plasma cells in germinal centers (GCs) of lymphoid tissues, and patients with B cell lymphoma undergoing immunotherapy have reduced antibody production, leading to higher infection rates and weaker vaccine responses.
  • - Current research models struggle to effectively mimic long-term GC functions and assess B cell responses, prompting the development of synthetic hydrogels that replicate the lymphoid tissue environment to support human GCs from various blood sources.
  • - The new immune organoid systems maintain critical B cell functions longer and offer unique immune programming features; however, they show less effectiveness with lymphoma-derived B cells, indicating a rapid method for studying immune responses and B cell-related disorders.
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I applied to law school as a means to an end. To "fix the system," to make a difference, to advocate for meaningful change that improves health and well-being of others. Charity Scott accomplished, in her academic career, what I have not.

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We report 10 experiments exploring the proposition that memory retrieval is perceptual attention turned inward. The experiments adapt the Eriksen and Eriksen perceptual flanker effect to a memory task in which subjects must decide whether a cued item in a probe display appeared in the same position in a memory list. Previous research with this episodic flanker task found distance and compatibility effects like those in the perceptual flanker task, suggesting that the same attentional spotlight is turned inward in memory retrieval.

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Correction for 'Flow and clogging of capillary droplets' by Yuxuan Cheng , , 2024, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SM00752B.

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Capillary droplets form due to surface tension when two immiscible fluids are mixed. We describe the motion of gravity-driven capillary droplets flowing through narrow constrictions and obstacle arrays in both simulations and experiments. Our new capillary deformable particle model recapitulates the shape and velocity of single oil droplets in water as they pass through narrow constrictions in microfluidic chambers.

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