3 papers
q-bio.TO2017
A Tissue Engineered Model of Aging: Interdependence and Cooperative Effects in Failing Tissues
Aylin Acun, Dervis Can Vural, Pinar Zorlutuna
Aging remains a fundamental open problem in modern biology. Although there exist a number of theories on aging on the cellular scale, nearly nothing is known about how microscopic…
q-bio.TO2017
Muscle-Cell-Based "Living Diodes"
Uryan Isik Can, Neerajha Nagarajan, Dervis Can Vural +1
A new type of diode that is made entirely of electrically excitable muscle cells and nonexcitable fibroblast cells is designed, fabricated, and characterized. These two cell types…
q-bio.PE2013
Increased Network Interdependency Leads to Aging
Dervis Can Vural, Greg Morrison, L. Mahadevan
Although species longevity is subject to a diverse range of selective forces, the mortality curves of a wide variety of organisms are rather similar. We argue that aging and its un…