The influence of scaffold elasticity on germ layer specification of human embryonic stem cells

Mechanical forces are critical to embryogenesis, specifically, in the lineage-specification gastrulation phase, whereupon the embryo is transformed from a simple spherical ball of cells to a multi-layered organism, containing properly organized endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm germ layers. Several r...

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Main Authors: Lee, Christopher Y., Levenberg, Shulamit, Karagiannis, Emmanouil, Anderson, Daniel Griffith, Zoldan, Janeta, Langer, Robert S
Other Authors: Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99403
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0131-6552
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5629-4798
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492