Micropatterning our way towards a pancreas
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Encouraging induced pluripotent stem cells to make their way towards forming pancreatic cells just got a bit easier: Ray shows that culturing iPSCs in physically defined patches creates conditions that mechanically push cells more efficiently towards expressing pancreatic markers, in the most recent edition of Nature’s Scientific Reports!
Gingerbread microenvironments
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Epic all-out miroenvironmental design competition at the Moraes lab holiday party. Which gingerbread house will impress, and which will suffer the ultimate ignominy of being devoured? The thrill of victory. The agony of defeat. The bribery of the judges. Plotting, sabotage, subterfuge, catapults, buoyant balloons, speeding gumdrops. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You won’t find this good a drama on Netflix.
