Biomaterials are widely used to study and control a variety of cell behaviors, including stem
cell differentiation, organogenesis, and tumor invasion. While considerable attention has …

Recent progress in mechanobiology has highlighted the importance of physical cues, such
as mechanics, geometry (size), topography, and porosity, in the determination of cellular …

Conventional cellular protein detection techniques such as immunocytochemistry and flow
cytometry require abundant cells, posing multiple challenges, including difficulty and cost for …

Hydrogels have gained significant popularity as model platforms to study reciprocal
interactions between cells and their microenvironment. While hydrogel tools to probe many …

Cell therapies, potent populations of cells used to treat disease and injury, can be
strategically manufactured with biomaterial intervention to improve clinical translation. In this …

Functional surfaces that enable both spatial and temporal control of biomolecules
immobilization have attracted enormous attention for various fields including smart …

PDAC, the most common type of pancreatic cancer, is a highly metastatic cancer that has a
low survival rate. It is histologically characterized by a thick desmoplastic stroma …

Obesity and the metabolic diseases that result from it continue to increase across the
developing and developed world with little slow down in sight. As such, novel mechanisms …