Search Results - "Mao, Angelo"
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Regenerative medicine: Current therapies and future directions
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (24-11-2015)“…Organ and tissue loss through disease and injury motivate the development of therapies that can regenerate tissues and decrease reliance on transplantations…”
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Effects of substrate stiffness and cell-cell contact on mesenchymal stem cell differentiation
Published in Biomaterials (01-08-2016)“…Abstract The mechanical properties of the microenvironment and direct contact-mediated cell-cell interactions are two variables known to be important in the…”
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Programmable CRISPR-responsive smart materials
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-08-2019)“…Stimuli-responsive materials activated by biological signals play an increasingly important role in biotechnology applications. We exploit the programmability…”
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Deterministic encapsulation of single cells in thin tunable microgels for niche modelling and therapeutic delivery
Published in Nature materials (01-02-2017)“…Single cells encapsulated in a layer of alginate and injected intravenously delay clearance kinetics and sustain donor-derived soluble factors in vivo …”
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Microfluidic Templated Multicompartment Microgels for 3D Encapsulation and Pairing of Single Cells
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (01-03-2018)“…Controlled encapsulation and pairing of single cells within a confined 3D matrix can enable the replication of the highly ordered cellular structure of human…”
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Microfluidic Generation of Monodisperse, Structurally Homogeneous Alginate Microgels for Cell Encapsulation and 3D Cell Culture
Published in Advanced healthcare materials (01-08-2015)“…Monodisperse alginate microgels (10–50 μm) are created via droplet‐based microfluidics by a novel crosslinking procedure. Ionic crosslinking of alginate is…”
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Harnessing traction-mediated manipulation of the cell/matrix interface to control stem-cell fate
Published in Nature materials (01-06-2010)“…Stem cells sense and respond to the mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix. However, both the extent to which extracellular-matrix mechanics affect…”
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Programmable microencapsulation for enhanced mesenchymal stem cell persistence and immunomodulation
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (30-07-2019)“…Mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapies demonstrate particular promise in ameliorating diseases of immune dysregulation but are hampered by short in vivo cell…”
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Cell volume change through water efflux impacts cell stiffness and stem cell fate
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (10-10-2017)“…Cells alter their mechanical properties in response to their local microenvironment; this plays a role in determining cell function and can even influence stem…”
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Material microenvironmental properties couple to induce distinct transcriptional programs in mammalian stem cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (04-09-2018)“…Variations in a multitude of material microenvironmental properties have been observed across tissues in vivo, and these have profound effects on cell…”
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An Integrated Microrobotic Platform for On-Demand, Targeted Therapeutic Interventions
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (12-02-2014)“…The presented microrobotic platform combines together the advantages of self‐folding NIR light sensitive polymer bilayers, magnetic alginate microbeads, and a…”
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3D Printed Microtransporters: Compound Micromachines for Spatiotemporally Controlled Delivery of Therapeutic Agents
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (01-11-2015)“…Functional compound micromachines are fabricated by a design methodology using 3D direct laser writing and selective physical vapor deposition of magnetic…”
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Minimally instrumented SHERLOCK (miSHERLOCK) for CRISPR-based point-of-care diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants
Published in Science advances (06-08-2021)“…An integrated, low-cost, sample-to-answer, CRISPR-based diagnostic detects SARS-CoV-2 and variants from unprocessed saliva. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights…”
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An injectable bone marrow–like scaffold enhances T cell immunity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-03-2019)“…Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a curative treatment for multiple disorders, but deficiency and dysregulation of T cells limit its…”
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Creating CRISPR-responsive smart materials for diagnostics and programmable cargo release
Published in Nature protocols (01-09-2020)“…Materials that sense and respond to biological signals in their environment have a broad range of potential applications in drug delivery, medical devices and…”
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Single cell-laden protease-sensitive microniches for long-term culture in 3D
Published in Lab on a chip (14-02-2017)“…Single cell-laden three-dimensional (3D) microgels that can serve to mimic stem cell niches in vitro, and are therefore termed microniches, can be efficiently…”
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RNA-responsive elements for eukaryotic translational control
Published in Nature biotechnology (01-04-2022)“…The ability to control translation of endogenous or exogenous RNAs in eukaryotic cells would facilitate a variety of biotechnological applications. Current…”
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Actuated 3D microgels for single cell mechanobiology
Published in Lab on a chip (17-05-2022)“…We present a new cell culture technology for large-scale mechanobiology studies capable of generating and applying optically controlled uniform compression on…”
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Acetalated Dextran Nanoparticles Loaded into an Injectable Alginate Cryogel for Combined Chemotherapy and Cancer Vaccination
Published in Advanced functional materials (01-08-2019)“…Vaccination represents a promising strategy for cancer therapy due to its ability to efficiently eliminate tumors from the host body and prevent their…”
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Controlled self-assembly of alginate microgels by rapidly binding molecule pairs
Published in Lab on a chip (11-07-2017)“…Controlled self-assembly of cell-encapsulating microscale polymeric hydrogels (microgels) could be advantageous in a variety of tissue engineering and…”
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