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microPublication Biology

Leila Alavi Naini1,2*ORCID logo, Natalie Linde1,3*ORCID logo, Sarah Malik1,2*ORCID logo, Yasin Syed1,2*ORCID logo, and Ann Oliver Cheek1,2§ORCID logo

1Honors College, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States

2Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States

3Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States

§Correspondence to: Ann Oliver Cheek (aocheek@uh.edu)

* Authors have equal contribution

Abstract

Description

Methods

Acknowledgements

Conflicts of Interest

Funding

Author Contributions

  • Leila Alavi Naini: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Formal analysis
  • Natalie Linde: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
  • Sarah Malik: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
  • Yasin Syed: Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
  • Ann Oliver Cheek: Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing - review & editing

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Anonymous

History

  • Received: 10/23/2025
  • Revision Received: 6/5/2026
  • Accepted: 6/10/2026
  • Published Online: 6/13/2026

Copyright

© 2026 by the authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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