When cells are encapsulated within a homogeneous gel matrix and given the right soluble cues, such as growth-factor proteins added to the culture medium, they can start to multiply and migrate ...
When it comes to understanding how stem cells interact with their surroundings, that learning may be just starting. In 2006, Dennis Discher from the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues ...
Based in fundamental materials science, the group synthesizes cytocompatible and cell-instructive biomaterials, often from biopolymers (e.g., hyaluronic acid) that are crosslinked into water-swollen ...
The translucent materials bridging the dishes are “agarose salt bridges” -- part of the electrochemical cell that UC San ... researchers used to subject hydrogels to an electric field.