Designing interlocking building blocks to create complex tissues Date: March 12, 2013 Source: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science Summary: A new “plug-and-play” method to ...

New York, NY—March 11, 2013—Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new "plug-and-play" method to assemble complex cell microenvironments that is a scalable, highly precise way to ...

Catenanes -- materials made of interlocking molecules, similar to medieval chain mail -- have proved laborious to make since their discovery 25 years ago. Now, chemists have found a way to make ...

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new “plug-and-play” method to assemble complex cell microenvironments that is a scalable, highly precise way to fabricate tissues with any spatial ...

University of California, Berkeley, chemists have created a new type of material from millions of identical, interlocking molecules that for the first time allows the synthesis of extensive 2D or 3D ...