The complexity of stem cell niches poses a tremendous challenge to understanding mechanisms of extrinsic regulation of stem cell fate. In order to better understand niche signaling and its effect on stem cell fate choices, in vitro systems are being engine ...
Engineered artificial microenvironments hold enormous potential as models to study developmental, physiological, pathological, and regenerative processes under highly defined conditions. Such platforms aim at bridging the gap between traditional in vitro 2 ...
Reductionist in vitro model systems which mimic specific extracellular matrix functions in a highly controlled manner, termed artificial extracellular matrices (aECM), have increasingly been used to elucidate the role of cell-ECM interactions in regulating ...
