Mobility mediates maturation: Synthetic substrates to enhance neural differentiation.

Roth, Julien G; Huang, Michelle S; Heilshorn, Sarah C · Cell Stem Cell · 2023

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Abstract

The maturation of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived neurons in 2D is dependent upon cell attachment, spreading, and pathfinding across a biomaterial substrate. In this issue of Cell Stem Cell, Álvarez et al.<sup>1</sup> demonstrate that highly mobile supramolecular scaffolds facilitate long-term hiPSC-derived motor neuron culture, increase maturation-related phenotypes, and recapitulate disease-relevant pathologies.

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