Publications by authors named "Ming-Kang Li"
Oxygen production within human cells plays a critical role in cellular metabolism and is implicated in various diseases, including cancer. Investigating cellular heterogeneity under oxygen stimulation is crucial for elucidating disease mechanisms and advancing early therapeutic design. In this study, the platinum-based wireless nanopore electrode (WNE) with a diameter of ≈200 nm is employed as a powerful tool to produce oxygen molecules near the cell nucleus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCell migration is known to be a fundamental biological process, playing an essential role in development, homeostasis, and diseases. This paper introduces a cell tracking algorithm named HFM-Tracker (Hybrid Feature Matching Tracker) that automatically identifies cell migration behaviours in consecutive images. It combines Contour Attention (CA) and Adaptive Confusion Matrix (ACM) modules to accurately capture cell contours in each image and track the dynamic behaviors of migrating cells in the field of view.
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- Sleep inertia (SI) is the groggy feeling you get when you wake up, making it hard to think quickly and focus.
- Scientists studied how the brain works when people wake up by using special brain imaging techniques and tasks to see how well they can pay attention.
- Their results showed that the brain's activity affects how quickly people get back to normal after waking up, and this research helps us understand what happens in our brains when we wake up from sleep.
The concept of local sleep refers to the phenomenon of local brain activity that modifies neural networks during unresponsive global sleep. Such network rewiring may differ across spatial scales; however, the global and local alterations in brain systems remain elusive in human sleep. We examined cross-scale changes of brain networks in sleep.
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