Carla Huerta-López
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Carla Huerta-López
@chuerti.bsky.social
I’m just a girl who loves science (and music, and art, and animals) | Postdoc in the Heilshorn lab at Stanford university | Former PhD student at CNIC | Biomaterials, mechanobiology, women’s health, DEI.
📢 My first post here and it is for a very exciting reason! My friends Tommaso Vicanolo and Jackson Li just published this beautiful work in @nature.com! Thrilled to have contributed. Congrats to ALL the authors.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Matrix-producing neutrophils populate and shield the skin - Nature
A population of neutrophils in the skin produces extracellular matrix, providing a defence strategy by reinforcing the barrier properties of the skin and helping to block the entry of pathogens.
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Reposted by Carla Huerta-López
📣 Excited to share our first manuscript of 2025 where we present an interpenetrating network of physically assembled collagen and covalently-crosslinked collagen, which contains *both* fibrous and amorphous #collagen networks!

Led by @luciabru.bsky.social & @chrislong42.bsky.social, check it out!
Interpenetrating networks of fibrillar and amorphous collagen promote cell spreading and hydrogel stability
Hydrogels composed of collagen, the most abundant protein in the human body, are widely used as scaffolds for tissue engineering due to their ability …
www.sciencedirect.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Carla Huerta-López
Happy holidays from the Heilshorn Lab! Great way to end the year celebrating each other’s accomplishments together 🤗🎄☃️
December 18, 2024 at 4:57 PM