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Congratulations to Michael and Adrianne for publishing one of the most accessed articles of 2016 in Journal of Materials Chemistry B . Find the full list here .

Ian Marozas and Tobin Brown co-authored this work, appearing online today in Advanced Materials . In this report, they investigate the use of reversible thiol-ene radical chemistry to rapidly photodegrade cell-laden hydrogels.

In this work, Emi Tokuda (currently at the Seattle Children's Hospital) investigates the effect of culture conditions, including dimensionality and cell-cell contacts, on the responsiveness of early- and late-stage melanoma cell lines towards cancer drugs. Find it here .

In this paper, former undergraduate research Michael Nehls and postdoc Adrianne Rosales demonstrate control over release kinetics of a model peptide drug based on a photo-switchable host/guest interaction between azobenzene and cyclodextrin. Check it out here !

This excellent review summarizes many of the techniques used to make reversible hydrogels. Whether the reversibility is in the crosslinks themselves, or in pendant functional groups, these gels have many interesting and exciting properties. Check it out online here .

We have four new excellent members of the Anseth lab this year. Anouk is joining us after a Master's degree at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, Jason joined from the MSTP program at the CU Denver medical school, Ben is a first-year student in the chemical engineering department, and...

In this paper, the authors describe a hydrazone crosslinked hydrogel formed by the reaction of photo-generated aldehydes with pendant hydrazine functionalities. The same reaction is also used to pattern biochemical ligands within the gel. Check it out !

In her latest publication, recent PhD graduate Kelly Mabry analyzes the differences in gene expression between freshly isolated valvular interstitial cells (VICs) and those cultured on conventional tissue culture plastic, on two-dimensional hydrogels, and encapsulated within three-dimensional hydrogels. Check it out here !

Congratulations to Adrianne , who was co-winner at the 2015 DYSS program at University of Washington!