Elasticizing tissues for reversible shape transformation and accelerated molecular labeling

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. We developed entangled link-augmented stretchable tissue-hydrogel (ELAST), a technology that transforms tissues into elastic hydrogels to enhance macromolecular accessibility and mechanical stability simultaneously. ELAS...

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Main Authors: Ku, Taeyun, Guan, Webster, Evans, Nicholas B, Sohn, Chang Ho, Albanese, Alexandre, Kim, Joon-Goon, Frosch, Matthew P, Chung, Kwanghun
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135336
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Summary:© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc. We developed entangled link-augmented stretchable tissue-hydrogel (ELAST), a technology that transforms tissues into elastic hydrogels to enhance macromolecular accessibility and mechanical stability simultaneously. ELASTicized tissues are highly stretchable and compressible, which enables reversible shape transformation and faster delivery of probes into intact tissue specimens via mechanical thinning. This universal platform may facilitate rapid and scalable molecular phenotyping of large-scale biological systems, such as human organs.