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1. Soft Materials for Studying Hard Biological Problems

   Online Presentations | 15 Oct 2019 | Contributor(s):: Kristi S. Anseth

    This talk will illustrate how we leverage these and other reversible chemistries to create biologically responsive hydrogel matrices, and employ them to study the effects of matricellular signaling on diverse cellular functions and processes.  For example, we exploit...

2. Hydrogel based Biochemical Sensors

   Downloads | 08 Jul 2016 | Contributor(s):: Piyush Dak, Muhammad A. Alam

   This is MATLAB code for a Hydrogel based biochemical sensor:  The sensor is composed of a hydrogel sandwiched between a rigid porous membrane and a deformable membrane.  The hydrogel is pendent with the ionizable groups (with density, Nf and acid dissociation constant, Ka) which are...

3. [Illinois] Role for Stiffness in Vascular Fate

   Online Presentations | 29 Jan 2016 | Contributor(s):: Lian Wong

   Stem cells, including embryonic stem cells (ESC) and induced pluripotent stem cells, have been explored as tools for studying development, as well as, potential sources for a large number of therapies in regenerative medicine. Traditionally, ESC are cultured on TC-plastic, however; it has been...

4. [Illinois] Hydrogels

   Online Presentations | 18 Sep 2015 | Contributor(s):: Michelle Oyen

5. [Illinois] Biomaterials to Replicate the Form and Function of Inhomogeneous Structures in the Body

   Online Presentations | 28 Apr 2014 | Contributor(s):: Brendan Harley

   The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a complex organization of structural proteins such as collagens and proteoglycans. Understanding that the ECM is dynamic and often spatially patterned or heterogeneous over the length-scale of traditional biomaterials, we are developing instructive biomaterials...

6. [Illinois] Breaking Collagen: Regulating In Vitro HepG2 Malignancy and Radiosensitivity with Selective MMP Degradation of Collagen-PEG Hydrogels

   Online Presentations | 04 Feb 2014 | Contributor(s):: Nick Clay

   In vitro three dimensional (3D) tumor models are important tools for understanding cancer progression and evaluating new cancer treatments on a benchtop scale.  Countless in vivo studies have demonstrated that cancer malignancy is based on extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. However, few...