Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

Spatiotemporal patterning of photoresponsive DNA-based hydrogels to tune local cell responses

  • Fujian Huang,
  • Mengxi Chen,
  • Zhixin Zhou,
  • Ruilin Duan,
  • Fan Xia,
  • Itamar Willner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22645-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Spatiotemporal patterning of hydrogel matrices has been used to control cell behavior. Here the authors present photoresponsive DNA-based hydrogels and demonstrate patterning of physical and biochemical properties to tune local cell responses.