Deepak Krishnamurthy

This paper introduces LUCas, a light-controlled Cas13a system that suppresses background activity and enables precise control of RNA detection, improving assay sensitivity and enabling multiplexed viral co-infection detection.

The study quantifies survival benefits and germline competition costs of chimerism in Botryllus schlosseri, finding survival advantages outweigh competition costs.

This study shows that target cell cortical tension determines whether macrophages trogocytose or phagocytose, with low tension favoring trogocytosis and high tension favoring phagocytosis.

Analysis of millions of unique cellular morphologies of the highly dynamic single-celled predator Lacrymaria olor reveals that it programs a comprehensive search space and emergent hunting behavior through coupling surface based active cilia and cortex based contractile molecular systems together.