Our work in printing contractile collagen droplets using aqueous-two phase technology was featured in Genetic Engineering News.  Microengineered systems enable the study of biology in unique ways, but are challenging to implement without extensive training and experience.  The technology described in our work (link) enables the rapid and simple production of collagen ‘microgels’ using equipment no more complex than a standard lab pipette.  Microgels can be used to circumvent issues of limited availability of cell samples, and limited diffusion ranges of large molecules in collagen-based assays; the feature article highlights our use of these microgels to study contraction of collagen in response to external soluble signals.