Hydrogel patterning with mCherry -- monster & Space Needle (IMAGE)

University of Washington

Hydrogel patterning with mCherry -- monster & Space Needle

Caption

Top view of two collagen hydrogels that researchers decorated with immobilized mCherry proteins, which glow red under fluorescent light. The team scanned near-infrared lasers in the shapes of a monster (left) and Seattle's Space Needle (right) to create these patterns. Black regions were not scanned with the laser, and so the mCherry protein did not adhere to those portions of the hydrogel. Scale bar is 50 micrometers.

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Batalov et al., PNAS, 2021

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