Methylcellulose – a versatile printing material that enables biofabrication of tissue equivalents with high shape fidelity

Biofabrication of Tissue Scaffolds

Graphene: A Versatile Carbon-Based Material for Bone Tissue Engineering

The development of materials and strategies that can influence stem cell attachment, proliferation, and differentiation towards osteoblasts is of high interest to promote faster healing and reconstructions of large bone defects. Graphene and its derivatives (graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide) have received increasing attention for biomedical applications as they present remarkable prope...

WIS-NeuroMath enables versatile high throughput analyses of neuronal processes.

Automated analyses of neuronal morphology are important for quantifying connectivity and circuitry in vivo, as well as in high content imaging of primary neuron cultures. The currently available tools for quantification of neuronal morphology either are highly expensive commercial packages or cannot provide automated image quantifications at single cell resolution. Here, we describe a new softw...

Actomyosin meshwork mechanosensing enables tissue shape to orient cell force

Sculpting organism shape requires that cells produce forces with proper directionality. Thus, it is critical to understand how cells orient the cytoskeleton to produce forces that deform tissues. During Drosophila gastrulation, actomyosin contraction in ventral cells generates a long, narrow epithelial furrow, termed the ventral furrow, in which actomyosin fibres and tension are directed along ...

design a shape-shifting robot gripper with granular material

in this paper, a new kind of gripper is designed. this universal gripper is proposed where different objects should be gripped easily, reliably within rapid succession without any feedback. by adding an annular balloon around the granular bag, a lateral force pushes the main membrane and increases the friction force between the bag and the load. according to the acquired test results reported i...