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Lauren Raasch

University of Illinois ChicagoORCID 0000-0003-0280-3678Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Cancer Biology· 1 Microbiology· 1

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Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:cancer & tumor microenvironment· 1 Research Focus:cell signaling & trafficking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Alex RichardsoniD· 1 shared Andrea M. WeileriD· 1 shared Anna S. JaegeriD· 1 shared Beatriz Peñalver BernabéiD· 1 shared Blake M. WilliamsiD· 1 shared Braulio Aguilar· 1 shared Carson DePagteriD· 1 shared Chelsea M. CrooksiD· 1 shared

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2026-2026 · peak 3/yr

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BioinformaticsReproductive Biology and EndocrinologyPeer-reviewedOct 29, 2026

Fetal sex is associated with the maternal gut microbiota composition and its metabolic function

Blake M. Williams, Jessica Liu, Lauren Raasch, Beatriz Peñalver Bernabé

This study finds that fetal sex influences maternal gut microbiota composition and metabolic function, with female pregnancies showing higher diversity and increased beta-glucuronidase activity.

1 citation

humanbulk RNA-seq

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintAug 10, 2026

Spondweni virus infection in pregnant rhesus macaques causes placental pathology without apparent fetal harm

Hunter J. Ries, Livia Romanov, Maria C. Charles…·Thomas C. Friedrich

This study infects pregnant rhesus macaques with Spondweni virus and finds placental pathology without fetal harm, contrasting with ZIKV-DAK-induced fetal demise.

DOI 10.64898/2026.08.10.743875

ratspatial transcriptomics

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Cancer BiologybioRxivPreprintMar 18, 2026

Endothelial ACKR1 expression regulates neutrophil infiltration and breast cancer metastatic engraftment in the lung metastatic niche

S. Tanner Roach, Qianxun Wang, Rishi Patel…·Jan Kitajewski

This study shows that endothelial ACKR1 promotes neutrophil infiltration and breast cancer metastasis in the lung by facilitating tumor cell engraftment.

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mouseexperimental assay

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