Anqi Zhang

Jun 19, 2024 | nature.com | Anqi Zhang |Karl Deisseroth

AbstractCells execute remarkable functions using biopolymers synthesized from natural building blocks. Engineering cells to leverage the vast array of synthesizable abiotic polymers could provide enhanced or entirely new cellular functions. Here we discuss the applications of in situ-synthesized abiotic polymers in three distinct domains: intracellular polymerization, cell-surface polymerization and extracellular polymerization.

Dec 4, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Anqi Zhang |Anthony M. Zador

Fig 5. Single neurons represent combinations of task features within and across task epochs. (a) Design of linear encoding model. Trial divided into 5 epochs, as marked. Linear model was fit using 10 task parameters to predict trial-by-trial firing rates within epochs: (1) stimulus, (2) choice, (3) reaction time, (4) movement latency, (5) correctness, (6) reward delivery, (7) previous trial last port visited, (8) previous trial choice, (9) previous trial outcome, and (10) previous trial stimulus.

Oct 3, 2023 | nature.com | Anqi Zhang |Zhenan Bao

AbstractCell type-specific interfaces within living animals will be invaluable for achieving communication with identifiable cells over the long term, enabling applications across many scientific and medical fields. However, biological tissues exhibit complex and dynamic organization properties that pose serious challenges for chronic cell-specific interfacing.

Sep 17, 2023 | sampan.org | Christopher John Stephens |Anqi Zhang |Lydia Lowe

The balance between creating a trendy world in Fantasy novels or contemporary Young Adult (YA) fiction and managing to say something that matters can be tricky. More often than not, genre fiction asks only that the writer provide strictly what their audience wants, nothing more and nothing less. In Livia Blackburne’s sweet new YA novel Clementine and Danny Save the World (and Each Other) that balance is front and center. Blackburne gives us Clementine Chan and Danny Mok.

Jul 20, 2023 | science.org | Eucharist Kun |M. A. Hanson |Karin A. Ziegler |Anqi Zhang

Editor’s summaryInterfacing of neural devices with the brain enables detailed recording and stimulation, but there is typically a trade-off between the level of invasiveness and the resolution of the device. A. Zhang et al. developed a probe consisting of an ultrasmall and flexible electronic mesh loaded onto a flexible microcatheter (see the Perspective by Timko).