Murphy’s team found that leaf structures not only have an “incredible ability” for mass transport, moving and expelling fluids rapidly and efficiently from one end to the other, but that human cells pattern themselves in …
Year: 2017
Advance furthers stem cells for use in drug discovery, cell therapy
This week, a UW–Madison team reports in Nature Biomedical Engineering that they have jumped a major hurdle on the path toward wider use of stem cells. Using an automated screening test that they devised, William …
UW-Madison scientists, inspired by old bones, find new strategy for drug delivery
UW-Madison scientists, inspired by proteins found intact in centuries-old human bones, created a mineral coating that mimics bone and appears to keep proteins stable. “What’s needed is a delivery system that remains localized, releases the …
Synthetic alternatives to Matrigel for toxicity screening and stem cell expansion
Arrays of synthetic hydrogels outperforms Matrigel in the screening for vascular-disrupting compounds and in supporting the expansion of human embryonic stem cells. The paper is published in nature biomedical Engineering.
UW-Madison scientists grow functional artery cells from stem cells, truly functional arterial cells reportedly created for the first time
In a step toward one of stem cell science’s chief goals, UW-Madison researchers have grown functional human artery cells that helped lab mice survive heart attacks. “This work provides valuable proof that we can eventually …