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Cheater-altruist synergy in immunopathogenic ecological public goods games
Bryce Morsky, Dervis Can Vural
Much research has focused on the deleterious effects of free-riding in public goods games, and a variety of mechanisms that suppresses cheating behaviour. Here we argue that under…
Shearing in flow environment promotes evolution of social behavior in microbial populations
Gurdip Uppal, Dervis Can Vural
How producers of public goods persist in microbial communities is a major question in evolutionary biology. Cooperation is evolutionarily unstable, since cheating strains can repro…
Temperature as a quantum observable
Sushrut Ghonge, Dervis Can Vural
In this article, we address the problem of how temperature of a quantum system is observed. By proposing a thought experiment, we argue that temperature must be conceived as an ope…
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…
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…