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Michele Di Pierro

Northeastern University, NSF Center For Theoretical Biological Physics
Verified email at northeastern.edu
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What is the blockchain?

M Di Pierro - Computing in Science & Engineering, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Blockchain is a new technology, based on hashing, which is at the foundation of the
platforms for trading cryptocurrencies and executing smart contracts. This article reviews the …

Feasibility and physiological effects of prone positioning in non-intubated patients with acute respiratory failure due to COVID-19 (PRON-COVID): a prospective cohort …

…, M Di Pierro, A Soria, P Faverio, M Cairo… - The Lancet …, 2020 - thelancet.com
… Michela Di Pierro, MD Michela Di Pierro … mean age was 57·4 years (SD 7·4) and the mean
BMI was 27·5 kg/m 2 (3·7). Prone positioning was feasible (ie, maintained for at least 3 h) in …

Gliadin, zonulin and gut permeability: Effects on celiac and non-celiac intestinal mucosa and intestinal cell lines

…, M Di Pierro, M Grazia Clemente… - Scandinavian journal …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Objective. Little is known about the interaction of gliadin with intestinal epithelial cells and
the mechanism(s) through which gliadin crosses the intestinal epithelial barrier. We …

High-precision lattice QCD confronts experiment

…, J Osborn, R Sugar, D Toussaint, M Di Pierro… - Physical Review Letters, 2004 - APS
The recently developed Symanzik-improved staggered-quark discretization allows
unquenched lattice-QCD simulations with much smaller (and more realistic) quark masses than …

[PDF][PDF] The energetics and physiological impact of cohesin extrusion

…, B Lee, AL Kovalchuk, Z Tang, S Nelson, M Di Pierro… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Cohesin extrusion is thought to play a central role in establishing the architecture of mammalian
genomes. However, extrusion has not been visualized in vivo, and thus, its functional …

Early effects of gliadin on enterocyte intracellular signalling involved in intestinal barrier function

…, MP Musu, MR Di Pierro, S Drago, M Congia… - Gut, 2003 - gut.bmj.com
Background and aims: Despite the progress made in understanding the immunological
aspects of the pathogenesis of coeliac disease (CD), the early steps that allow gliadin to cross …

Excited heavy-light systems and hadronic transitions

M Di Pierro, E Eichten - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
A detailed study of orbital and radial excited states in D, D s, B, and B s systems is performed.
The chiral quark model provides the framework for the calculation of pseudoscalar meson (…

3D genomics across the tree of life reveals condensin II as a determinant of architecture type

…, B van Steensel, E de Wit, JN Onuchic, M Di Pierro… - Science, 2021 - science.org
We investigated genome folding across the eukaryotic tree of life. We find two types of three-dimensional
(3D) genome architectures at the chromosome scale. Each type appears and …

Transferable model for chromosome architecture

M Di Pierro, B Zhang, EL Aiden… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Di Pierro for help in editing the manuscript. This work was supported by the Center for
Theoretical Biological Physics sponsored by the National Science Foundation (Grants PHY-…

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin alternates between A and B compartments at kilobase scale for subgenic organization

…, DH Phanstiel, WS Noble, G Nir, M Di Pierro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nuclear compartments are prominent features of 3D chromatin organization, but sequencing
depth limitations have impeded investigation at ultra fine-scale. CTCF loops are generally …