Electrospinning: An enabling nanotechnology platform for drug delivery and regenerative medicine

S Chen, R Li, X Li, J Xie - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Electrospinning provides an enabling nanotechnology platform for generating a rich variety
of novel structured materials in many biomedical applications including drug delivery …

The actin cytoskeleton as an active adaptive material

S Banerjee, ML Gardel… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Actin is the main protein used by biological cells to adapt their structure and mechanics to
their needs. Cellular adaptation is made possible by molecular processes that strongly …

Reversible photoregulation of cell-cell adhesions with opto-E-cadherin

B Nzigou Mombo, BM Bijonowski, CA Raab… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
E-cadherin-based cell-cell adhesions are dynamically and locally regulated in many
essential processes, including embryogenesis, wound healing and tissue organization, with …

Coordination of morphogenesis and cell-fate specification in development

CJ Chan, CP Heisenberg, T Hiiragi - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
During animal development, cell-fate-specific changes in gene expression can modify the
material properties of a tissue and drive tissue morphogenesis. While mechanistic insights …

Guided morphogenesis through optogenetic activation of Rho signalling during early Drosophila embryogenesis

E Izquierdo, T Quinkler, S De Renzis - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
During organismal development, cells undergo complex changes in shape whose causal
relationship to individual morphogenetic processes remains unclear. The modular nature of …

Self-organization in pattern formation

F Schweisguth, F Corson - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Self-organization is pervasive in development, from symmetry breaking in the early embryo
to tissue patterning and morphogenesis. For a few model systems, the underlying molecular …

Engineering AraC to make it responsive to light instead of arabinose

E Romano, A Baumschlager, EB Akmeric… - Nature chemical …, 2021 - nature.com
The l-arabinose-responsive AraC and its cognate PBAD promoter underlie one of the most
often used chemically inducible prokaryotic gene expression systems in microbiology and …

Fast-acting chemical tools to delineate causality in transcriptional control

MG Jaeger, GE Winter - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Multi-dimensional omics profiling continues to illuminate the complexity of cellular
processes. Because of difficult mechanistic interpretation of phenotypes induced by slow …

Optogenetics in bacteria–applications and opportunities

F Lindner, A Diepold - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Optogenetics holds the promise of controlling biological processes with superb temporal
and spatial resolution at minimal perturbation. Although many of the light-reactive proteins …

From single cells to tissue self‐organization

AXS Dos Santos, P Liberali - The FEBS journal, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Self‐organization is a process by which interacting cells organize and arrange themselves
in higher order structures and patterns. To achieve this, cells must have molecular …