Ali Maximilian Erturk

Our recent work in @Nature, MouseMapper uses foundation-model AI, mapping perturbations in mouse body cell-by-cell, revealed unexpected facial nerve damage. Proud to see >75K accesses & >60 news stories in the first week. Paper->> www.nature.com/articles/s41... Next www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Today in Nature, we report MouseMapper: foundation-model AI to map disease perturbations across the entire mouse body cell-by-cell. In obesity, it revealed body-wide inflammation & unexpected facial nerve damage. www.nature.com/articles/s41... More at: x.com/erturklab/st...

🧠 Does brain aging always mean vessel loss? We found the opposite in some aged brains: maladaptive hypervascularization, linked to cognitive decline and blood-brain barrier damage. Check it out below! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Using vDISCO tissue clearing, and a new ultrabright chemical labeling strategy. This work introduces LINCS for rapid, scalable 3D connectivity mapping from single neurons to whole brains, advances for high-throughput circuit mapping. Great work by Rui Lin lab. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

7) 🧩 Main finding 4. Plug-and-play targeting: LipiGo’s DNA handles act as modular building blocks. Conjugating a white adipocyte–specific aptamer enabled tissue-specific mRNA delivery with enhanced uptake in white adipocytes 🎯

4 ➡️ Main finding 1. DNA handles protruding from LipiGo enabled functional liver detargeting and strong spleen accumulation. Unlike conventional LNPs that mainly go to the liver, LipiGo redirects mRNA delivery to lymphoid organs.

We are introducing LipiGo 🤗 A programmable DNA–lipid nanocarrier 🧬 with built-in targeting logic. It de-targets the liver and redirects mRNA delivery into lymphoid organs, enhancing therapies requiring the immune system. Precision delivery at the cell level isn't far! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We discovered that the skull bone marrow has direct connections to the brain surface & mirrors brain inflammation, making it a new site for diagnosing & monitoring brain pathologies. Kolabas…Ertürk, Cell (2023): www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S00... Our Tech: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... bit.ly/3PQuymm

We developed MouseMapper AI, a deep learning ensemble for the analysis of whole-body systems, including the nervous and immune systems, to map disease/drug perturbations tissue by tissue, organ by organ, at the cellular level in 3D. biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our Nature Biotech paper hit 225K+ accesses in 3 months! 🤩 7 first authors from computer science, biology & chemistry prove that great science is teamwork. We combined AI & imaging to visualize single cells across whole organisms. Team synergy > individual brilliance. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share our latest work with Denali Therapeutics as Deep Piction. Using our proprietary clearing & imaging, we’ve mapped the full targeting profile of brain-penetrating transport vehicles (ATVs) in both whole mouse bodies and monkey brains. nature.com/articles/s41...

See our recent @naturebiotech.bsky.social study SCP-Nano in flow! Mapping LNPs, AAVs, and DNA nanostructures to track targeting & unseen toxicity before clinical trials 🤩. Already >190K access, the most in recent years! 👇🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imagine seeing a disease's impact on every cell in the body. Now, you can! We introduce MouseMapper, an AI tool to reveal system-wide disease perturbations. It reveals obesity-induced changes in facial nerves & body-wide inflammation 👉🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Additionally, we visualized infiltrating CD68-EGFP immune cells linked to chronic inflammation in obesity on the whole-body scale.

To see how obesity affects the body, we used vDISCO clearing and imaging to visualize the peripheral nervous system in both lean and obese mice.

Imagine seeing a disease's impact on every cell in the body. Now, you can! We introduce MouseMapper, an AI tool to reveal system-wide disease perturbations. It reveals obesity-induced changes in facial nerves & body-wide inflammation 👉🧵https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.18.608300v1.full.pdf

Our new study shows that SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulates & persists in the body for years after infection, especially in the skull-meninges-brain axis, potentially driving long COVID. mRNA vaccines help but cannot stop it🔬🧠🦠🧵Your weekend read👇 @cellpress.bsky.social cell.com/cell-host-mi...