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Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model (2023)
Journal Article
Wu, Y., Romero, M., Robertson, S. N., Fenn, S., Fisher, L., Willingham, I., …Mata, A. (2024). Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model. Matter, 7(1), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2023.10.029

Biofilms are robust living 3D materials that play key roles in nature but also cause major problems, such as tolerance to antibiotic treatment. Recreation of these living structures in vitro is critical to understand their biology and develop solutio... Read More about Co-assembling living material as an in vitro lung epithelial infection model.

Synthetic extracellular matrices with function-encoding peptides (2023)
Journal Article
Ligorio, C., & Mata, A. (2023). Synthetic extracellular matrices with function-encoding peptides. Nature Reviews Bioengineering, 1, 518–536. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44222-023-00055-3

The communication of cells with their surroundings is mostly encoded in the epitopes of structural and signalling proteins present in the extracellular matrix (ECM). These peptide epitopes can be incorporated in biomaterials to serve as function-enco... Read More about Synthetic extracellular matrices with function-encoding peptides.