Designing materials to direct stem-cell fateMatthias P Lutolf
Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Nature 462:433-41. 2009
..Further synergism of cell biological and biomaterials technologies promises to have a profound impact on stem-cell biology and provide insights that will advance stem-cell-based clinical approaches to tissue regeneration...
Patterning of cell-instructive hydrogels by hydrodynamic flow focusingSteffen Cosson
Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Station 15, Bldg AI 1109, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Lab Chip 13:2099-105. 2013
..Our concept should be broadly applicable to probe how complex signaling microenvironments influence stem cell fate in culture...
Automated analysis of single stem cells in microfluidic trapsStefan A Kobel
Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering LSCB, Institute of Bioengineering and School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, CH 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lab Chip 12:2843-9. 2012
..This approach should be applicable to automatically track single live cells in a wealth of microfluidic systems...
Diagnostic microchip to assay 3D colony-growth potential of captured circulating tumor cellsColette A Bichsel
School of Life Sciences, Institute of Bioengineering and Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Lab Chip 12:2313-6. 2012
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High-throughput clonal analysis of neural stem cells in microarrayed artificial nichesMarta Roccio
School of Life Sciences, Institute of Bioengineering and Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland
Integr Biol (Camb) 4:391-400. 2012
..We believe that the bioengineering of such in vitro niche analogues is a powerful approach to elucidate single stem cell fate regulation in a well-controlled fashion...
Integration column: artificial ECM: expanding the cell biology toolbox in 3DMatthias P Lutolf
Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering and Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, Switzerland
Integr Biol (Camb) 1:235-41. 2009
..Here I will discuss emerging approaches in aECM design, hopefully inspiring cell biologists to apply these systems to address their specific biological question...
Artificial stem cell nichesMatthias P Lutolf
Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Adv Mater 21:3255-68. 2009
..Such "artificial niches" constitute potent tools for elucidating stem cell regulatory mechanisms with the capacity to directly impact the development of novel therapeutic strategies for tissue regeneration...
Programmable microfluidic patterning of protein gradients on hydrogelsSimone Allazetta
Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering, Institute of Bioengineering, School of Life Sciences, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Station 15 Bldg AI 1109, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Chem Commun (Camb) 47:191-3. 2011
..Computer-controlled hydrodynamic flow focusing was utilized to generate tethered protein gradients of any user-defined shape on the surface of soft synthetic hydrogels...
High-throughput methods to define complex stem cell nichesStefan Kobel
Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering LSCB and Institute of Bioengineering IBI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Biotechniques 48:ix-xxii. 2010
..Increased merging of microfabrication with advanced biomaterials technologies may ultimately result in functional artificial niches capable of recapitulating extrinsic stem cell regulation in vitro and on a single-cell level...