During the early stages of life, organs do not just appear in their final form. They take shape through a process of controlled bending, twisting, and folding. These changes help cells organize into ...

Bioengineers from the University of California, San Fransisco (UCSF) have figured out how to create bowls, coils, and ripples out of actual, living tissue. The researchers manipulated active cells ...

A team of researchers, including Northwestern Engineering’s Madhav Mani, has brought the world closer to understanding how living tissues and cells arrive at their physical forms. By studying a ...

The researchers found that by layering hydrogels with different properties like a stack of paper, the difference in water absorption between the layers will cause the hydrogel stack to bend into a 'C' ...

News Release 24-Feb-2021 New shape-changing 4D materials hold promise for morphodynamic tissue engineering Shape-changing scaffold for tissue engineering Peer-Reviewed Publication University of ...