{"id":668,"date":"2014-04-21T03:41:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T03:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/?p=668"},"modified":"2014-05-06T18:58:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T18:58:59","slug":"highlight-aqueous-printing-collagen-microgels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/highlight-aqueous-printing-collagen-microgels\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlight: printing collagen &#8216;microgels&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our work in printing contractile collagen droplets\u00a0using aqueous-two phase technology was featured\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genengnews.com\/gen-articles\/cellular-models-for-finer-screening\/5187\/\">Genetic Engineering News<\/a>. \u00a0Microengineered systems enable the study of biology in unique ways, but are challenging to implement\u00a0without extensive training and experience. \u00a0The technology described in our work (<a href=\"http:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/?p=83\">link<\/a>) enables the rapid and simple production of collagen &#8216;microgels&#8217; using equipment\u00a0no more complex than a standard lab pipette. \u00a0Microgels\u00a0can be used to circumvent issues of limited availability of cell samples, and limited diffusion ranges of large molecules in collagen-based\u00a0assays; the feature article highlights our use of these microgels to study contraction of collagen in response to external soluble signals.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our work in printing contractile collagen droplets\u00a0using aqueous-two phase technology was featured\u00a0in Genetic Engineering News. \u00a0Microengineered systems enable the study of biology in unique ways, but are challenging to implement\u00a0without extensive training and experience. \u00a0The technology described in our work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}