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This year we were invited to submit a manuscript and presentation to the SPIE Photonics West BiOS Conference. We submitted both on the work we have done on the uSIM-DX virus sensor platform. Below I have attached the presentation which I presented. It summarizes the motivation behind our work, current testing capabilities, introduces our membranes…

The aim of this work was to electrospin aligned polymeric fibers on parylene stencils as means to characterize the critical necessary total area and necessary opening sizes to elicit endothelial cell response in the form of cell alignment among other characteristics typically found in human cells that are adjacent to highly aligned ECM. For this…

The motivation of this work by Daniela Lincoln (master’s student) was to investigate the feasibility of using different variants of parylene (C and N) for barrier studies and to look deeper into the implications of plasma surface modification for cell-substrate interactions. For this purpose, we used and tested a variety of device designs, which led…

The idea of this project started when we were writing a mini-review about cell-substrate interaction. Although most of studies of cellular responses to porous membranes have pointed towards a multiphasic response with the same trend of changes with respect to the pore sizes, we also found some variation in the results. We suggested that some…

Introduction Previous experiments completed by Hayley Miller investigated the effect of small extracellular vesicles (EVs) collected from Adipose Derived Stem Cells (ADSCs) on wound closure velocity and cell speed. Her previous related post can be found here.  It was initially hypothesized that EVs play an important role in wound healing and affect the wound closure…