research
- Congratulations to Andrea Gonzalez-Rodriguez and Megan Schroeder for their work on a new article being featured in APL Bioengineering! Find the full article here and the press release here.
- Katie's latest work examines the interactions between lung epithelial and fibroblast cells in a co-culture model of the lung alveolus. Find it at Biomaterials.
- Adrianne Rosales (now at University of Texas) uses hydrogels with photocleavable and photopolymerizable functional groups to investigate the response of mesenchymal stem cells to changing mechanical environments. Head over to Angewandte Chemie to
- Interested in how photochemical reactions can be used to create and modify biomaterials? Head over to Chemical Society Reviews and check out the latest review!
- Alex Caldwell publishes a synthetic bottom-up fabrication process for microgel building blocks with clickable surface groups to make porous cell-laden scaffolds. Follow this link to read the full maunscript!
- Hao Ma and Anouk Killaars co-authored this work appearing in Biomaterials. In this paper, they investigated the role of spatial variations in matrix elasticity and its organization on myofibroblastic activation on valvular interstitial cells. Check
In this work, Della develops fluorescent microgel sensors for the three-dimensional monitoring of cellular protease activity. These sensors are then used to monitor protease activity of melanoma cancer cells. Check out the full article here!- Congratulations to Michael and Adrianne for publishing one of the most accessed articles of 2016 in Journal of Materials Chemistry B. Find the full list here.
- Ian Marozas and Tobin Brown co-authored this work, appearing online today in Advanced Materials. In this report, they investigate the use of reversible thiol-ene radical chemistry to rapidly photodegrade cell-laden hydrogels.
- In this work, Emi Tokuda (currently at the Seattle Children's Hospital) investigates the effect of culture conditions, including dimensionality and cell-cell contacts, on the responsiveness of early- and late-stage melanoma cell lines towards