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Keeping track of others' perceptual beliefs-what they perceive and know about the current situation-is imperative in many social contexts. In a series of experiments, we set out to investigate people's ability to keep track of what robots know or believe about objects and events in the environment. To this end, we subjected 155 experimental participants to an anticipatory-looking false-belief task where they had to reason about a robot's perceptual capability in order to predict its behavior. We conclude that (1) it is difficult for people to track the perceptual beliefs of a robot whose perceptual capability potentially differs significantly from human perception, (2) people can gradually "tune in" to the unique perceptual capabilities of a robot over time by observing it interact with the environment, and (3) providing people with verbal information about a robot's perceptual capability might not significantly help them predict its behavior.Galunisertib (LY2157299) is a selective ATP-mimetic inhibitor of TGF-β receptor-I activation, currently under clinical trial in a variety of cancers. We have tested the combined effects of galunisertib- and interleukin-15-activated dendritic cells in an aggressive and highly metastatic murine lymphoma. Based on the tumor-draining lymph node architecture, and its histology, the combination therapy results in better prognosis, including disappearance of the disease-exacerbating regulatory T cells. Our data suggest that galunisertib significantly enhances the success of immunotherapy with IL-15-activated dendritic cells by limiting the regulatory T cells generation with consequent downregulation of regulatory T cells in the tumor-draining lymph nodes and vascularized organ like spleen. This is also associated with consistent loss p-SMAD2 and downregulation of Neuropilin-1, leading to better prognosis and positive outcome. These results connect the role of combined therapy with the consequent elimination of disease-exacerbating T regulatory cells in a metastatic murine lymphoma.Understanding the antibody response is critical to developing vaccine and antibody-based therapies and has inspired the recent development of new methods to isolate antibodies. Methods to define the antibody-antigen interactions that determine specificity or allow escape have not kept pace. We developed Phage-DMS, a method that combines two powerful approaches-immunoprecipitation of phage peptide libraries and deep mutational scanning (DMS)-to enable high-throughput fine mapping of antibody epitopes. As an example, we designed sequences encoding all possible amino acid variants of HIV Envelope to create phage libraries. Using Phage-DMS, we identified sites of escape predicted using other approaches for four well-characterized HIV monoclonal antibodies with known linear epitopes. Cp2-SO4 In some cases, the results of Phage-DMS refined the epitope beyond what was determined in previous studies. This method has the potential to rapidly and comprehensively screen many antibodies in a single experiment to define sites essential for binding interactions.3D in vitro cancer models are important therapeutic and biological discovery tools, yet formation of matrix-embedded multicellular spheroids prepared in high-throughput (HTP), and in a highly controlled manner, remains challenging. This is important to achieve robust and statistically relevant data. Here, we developed an enabling technology consisting of a bespoke drop-on-demand 3D bioprinter capable of HTP printing of 96-well plates of spheroids. 3D multicellular spheroids are embedded inside a hydrogel matrix with precise control over size and cell number, with the intra-experiment variability of embedded spheroid diameter coefficient of variation being between 4.2% and 8.7%. Application of 3D bioprinting HTP drug screening was demonstrated with doxorubicin. Measurements of IC50 values showed sensitivity to spheroid size, embedding, and how spheroids conform to the embedding, revealing parameters shaping biological responses in these models. Our study demonstrates the potential of 3D bioprinting as a robust HTP platform to screen biological and therapeutic parameters.TLR ligands can contribute to T cell immune responses by indirectly stimulating antigen presentation and cytokines and directly serving as co-stimulatory signals. We have previously reported that the human endogenous surface protein, Δ42PD1, is expressed primarily on (Vγ9)Vδ2 cells and can interact with TLR4. Since Vδ2 cells possess antigen presentation capacity, we sought to further characterize if the Δ42PD1-TLR4 interaction has a role in stimulating T cell responses. In this study, we found that stimulation of Vδ2 cells not only upregulated Δ42PD1 expression but also increased MHC class II molecules necessary for the antigen presentation. In a mixed leukocyte reaction assay, upregulation of Δ42PD1 on Vδ2 cells elevated subsequent T cell proliferation. Furthermore, the interaction between Δ42PD1-TLR4 augments Vδ2 cell stimulation of autologous CMV pp65-or TT-specific CD4+ T cell proliferation and IFN-γ responses, which was specifically and significantly reduced by blocking the Δ42PD1-TLR4 interaction. Furthermore, confocal microscopy analysis confirmed the interaction between Δ42PD1+HLA-DR+Vδ2 cells and TLR4+CD4 T cells. Interestingly, the subset of CD4+ T cells expressing TLR4 appears to be PD-1+ CD45RO+CD45RA+ transitional memory T cells and responded to Δ42PD1+HLA-DR+Vδ2 cells. Overall, this study demonstrated an important biological role of Δ42PD1 protein exhibited by Vδ2 antigen-presenting cells in augmenting T cell activation through TLR4, which may serve as an additional co-stimulatory signal.Phenotypic heterogeneity in cancer is often caused by different patterns of genetic alterations. Understanding such phenotype-genotype relationships is fundamental for the advance of personalized medicine. We develop a computational method, named NETPHIX (NETwork-to-PHenotype association with eXclusivity) to identify subnetworks of genes whose genetic alterations are associated with drug response or other continuous cancer phenotypes. Leveraging interaction information among genes and properties of cancer mutations such as mutual exclusivity, we formulate the problem as an integer linear program and solve it optimally to obtain a subnetwork of associated genes. Applied to a large-scale drug screening dataset, NETPHIX uncovered gene modules significantly associated with drug responses. Utilizing interaction information, NETPHIX modules are functionally coherent and can thus provide important insights into drug action. In addition, we show that modules identified by NETPHIX together with their association patterns can be leveraged to suggest drug combinations.