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Guiding tissue-scale self-organization

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A bioprinting approach that utilizes organoid-forming stem cells as a living ink within hydrogels guides tissue-scale self-organization to generate more realistic gastrointestinal and vascular tissue constructs.

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Fig. 1: Generation of large-scale tissues using a bioprinting-assisted tissue emergence approach.

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  1. Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Zev J. Gartner

  2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Zev J. Gartner & Jennifer L. Hu

  3. Center for Cellular Construction, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Zev J. Gartner

  4. CSF-UC Berkeley Joint Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Jennifer L. Hu

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Gartner, Z.J., Hu, J.L. Guiding tissue-scale self-organization. Nat. Mater. 20, 2–3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-00885-1

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