Engineering ellipsoidal cap-like hydrogel particles as building blocks or sacrificial templates for three-dimensional cell culture

• Main Authors: Zhang, Weiwei, Huang, Guoyou, Ng, Kelvin Wei Shan, Ji, Yuan, Gao, Bin, Huang, Liqing, Zhou, Jinxiong, Lu, Tian Jian, Xu, Feng
• Format: Article
• Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2018
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/20168/; https://doi.org/10.1039/c7bm01186e
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Hydrogel particles that can be engineered to compartmentally culture cells in a three-dimensional (3D) and high-Throughput manner have attracted increasing interest in the biomedical area. However, the ability to generate hydrogel particles with specially designed structures and their potential biom...