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Michelle Huang
@michshuang.bsky.social
cheme phd in the heilshorn lab @ stanford & chem-h | nsf grfp & nih f31 fellow | formerly mit cheme | just a dancer trying to understand the brain using stem cells & biomaterials!
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Excited to share our new review on #organoid #bioprinting in Nature Reviews Bioengineering! 🎉 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

We highlight recent advances and envision a future that integrates organoid biology and biofabrication approaches to engineer complex tissues. Hope you enjoy!

🔓: rdcu.be/d3H6u
Organoid bioprinting: from cells to functional tissues
Nature Reviews Bioengineering - Integrating bioprinting with organoid technology can enhance tissue engineering by improving complexity, reproducibility and scalability. This Review discusses...
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We are thrilled to be at #SFB2025 in Chicago this week! @vanessadoulames.bsky.social will be sharing some of our recent work on a hydrogel-mediated approach for spinal cord injury. Excited to see everyone! 🤗
April 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Reposted by Michelle Huang
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article)
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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My statement regarding the decision to drop the second round of the CZI Science Diversity Leadership Award funding opportunity:
February 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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A bittersweet goodbye to Dr. David Kilian as we send him off to the Netherlands! David will be joining the MERLN Institute at Maastricht University to start his independent research group! 🥳 We wish him the best and of course will miss him so much 🥺🫶
January 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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📣 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 Michelle Huang
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
Excited to share our new review on #organoid #bioprinting in Nature Reviews Bioengineering! 🎉 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

We highlight recent advances and envision a future that integrates organoid biology and biofabrication approaches to engineer complex tissues. Hope you enjoy!

🔓: rdcu.be/d3H6u
Organoid bioprinting: from cells to functional tissues
Nature Reviews Bioengineering - Integrating bioprinting with organoid technology can enhance tissue engineering by improving complexity, reproducibility and scalability. This Review discusses...
rdcu.be
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by Michelle Huang
1st post in a new space seems like a good spot to feature the 1st project by the lab's 1st PhD student! We set out to engineer calcium-responsive proteins as muscle-mimetic materials and discovered some surprises along the way. Congrats to Marina, Winnie, Gatha, and Kenny!
doi.org/10.1039/D4PY...
Sequence-defined structural transitions by calcium-responsive proteins
Biopolymer sequences dictate their functions, and protein-based polymers are a promising platform to establish sequence–function relationships for novel biopolymers. To efficiently explore vast sequen...
doi.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Reposted by Michelle Huang
Hi 🦋! We are a biomaterials group at Stanford interested in tissue engineering, biofabrication, and hydrogel-based therapies. And we just celebrated labsgiving! 🤗🦃
#HiSky #SciSky
November 22, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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I didn’t see a general starter pack for people in the #BME and #BioE communities so I started to put one together. Let me know if I’ve missed anyone in particular or if you’d like to be added! #ScienceSky #AcademicSky
go.bsky.app/9nMCGLK
November 18, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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New paper in Advanced Materials! We develop a family of 3D viscoelastic HA matrices and use them to study effects of stress relaxation on GBM invasion. Led by ChemE PhD student Emily Carvalho in collaboration with Andreas Stahl (UCB) and Manish Aghi (UCSF) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Viscoelastic High‐Molecular‐Weight Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels Support Rapid Glioblastoma Cell Invasion with Leader–Follower Dynamics
Glioblastoma spheroids invade faster in stress-relaxing, high-molecular-weight (HMW) hyaluronic acid hydrogels than in more elastic-like, low-molecular-weight counterparts. The long HMW chains create....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 18, 2024 at 3:16 PM
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Here’s our latest research! How do 3D mechanical cues shape muscle stem cells (MuSCs) in regeneration? We took a deep dive into this question in our latest work: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
3D mechanical confinement directs muscle stem cell fate and function
Muscle stem cells (MuSCs) play a crucial role in skeletal muscle regeneration, residing in a niche that undergoes dimensional and mechanical changes throughout the regeneration process. This study inv...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2024 at 6:52 PM