Recent advances in nanotechnology have stimulated novel applications in biomedicine
where nanoparticles (NPs) are used to achieve drug delivery and photodynamic therapy. In …

Parasitization by malaria-inducing Plasmodium falciparum leads to structural, biochemical,
and mechanical modifications to the host red blood cells (RBCs). To study these modifications…

The human erythrocyte (red blood cell, RBC) demonstrates extraordinary ability to undergo
reversible large deformation and fluidity. Such mechanical response cannot be consistently …

The membrane of the red blood cell (RBC) consists of spectrin tetramers connected at actin
junctional complexes, forming a two-dimensional (2D) sixfold triangular network anchored to …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) allows for high-resolution topography studies of biological
cells and measurement of their mechanical properties in physiological conditions. In this work, …

Biological membranes are involved in numerous intriguing biophysical and biological cellular
phenomena of different length scales, ranging from nanoscale raft formation, vesiculation, …

Panic during emergency building evacuation can cause crowd stampede, resulting in
serious injuries and casualties. Agent-based methods have been successfully employed to …

… Li and Lykotrafitis simulated the biomechanical properties of HbS polymer fibers via two
different coarse-grained HbS fiber models, demonstrating the significant role of fiber frustration …

Super-resolution microscopy recently revealed that, unlike the soma and dendrites, the axon
membrane skeleton is structured as a series of actin rings connected by spectrin filaments …

We present a two-component coarse-grained molecular-dynamics model for simulating the
erythrocyte membrane. The proposed model possesses the key feature of combing the lipid …