3 papers
physics.bio-ph2026
The typical red cell makes too little vacuole material for coalescence to build the large vacuoles of pocked cells
Zhaojie Chai, Jianlu Zheng, He Li +2
Red blood cells carrying intracellular vacuoles, called pocked cells, are a sensitive marker of splenic function: about 0.5% of cells in healthy people, 20 to 70% after splenectomy…
cond-mat.soft2026
Quantifying reticulocyte biomechanics in health and disease
Zhaojie Chai, Jianlu Zheng, He Li +2
Red blood cell (RBC) populations are mechanically and morphologically heterogeneous, yet how this heterogeneity governs transport, splenic retention and blood rheology in confineme…
cs.CV2026
An AI-enabled tool for quantifying overlapping red blood cell sickling dynamics in microfluidic assays
Nikhil Kadivar, Guansheng Li, Jianlu Zheng +3
Understanding sickle cell dynamics requires accurate identification of morphological transitions under diverse biophysical conditions, particularly in densely packed and overlappin…