Leveraging Crosslinker Diffusion to Template Stiffness Gradients in Alginate Hydrogels
Z. Ostrowski, T. Price, J. Zhang, A. Foroozandehfar, F. R. Namanda, T. Kaufmann, N. Judka, T. Gardner, M. Thatcher, E. Miller, L. Mesyk, A. Koep, A. T. Melvin, J. Ren, I. C. Schneider
This paper develops a method to create stiffness gradients in alginate hydrogels using stencils, enabling the study of mechanosensitive cell behaviors like cancer cell invasion.
bioRxiv · Jun 26, 2024Bioengineering