Abstract
Biophysical cues synergize with biochemical cues to drive differentiation of pluripotent stem cells through specific phenotypic trajectory. Tools to manipulate the cell biophysical environment and identify the influence of specific environment perturbation in the presence of combinatorial inputs will be critical to control the development trajectory. Here we describe the procedure to perturb biophysical environment of pluripotent stem cells while maintaining them in 3D culture configuration. We also discuss a high-throughput platform for combinatorial perturbation of the cell microenvironment, and detail a statistical procedure to extract dominant environmental influences.
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Richardson, T. et al. (2021). Engineering Biophysical Cues for Controlled 3D Differentiation of Endoderm Derivatives. In: Ebrahimkhani, M.R., Hislop, J. (eds) Programmed Morphogenesis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2258. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1174-6_6
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