Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA.
Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Nat Methods. 2020 Jun;17(6):609-613. doi: 10.1038/s41592-020-0823-y. Epub 2020 May 18.
We developed entangled link-augmented stretchable tissue-hydrogel (ELAST), a technology that transforms tissues into elastic hydrogels to enhance macromolecular accessibility and mechanical stability simultaneously. ELASTicized tissues are highly stretchable and compressible, which enables reversible shape transformation and faster delivery of probes into intact tissue specimens via mechanical thinning. This universal platform may facilitate rapid and scalable molecular phenotyping of large-scale biological systems, such as human organs.
我们研发了纠缠链接增强可拉伸组织水凝胶(ELAST)技术,该技术可将组织转化为弹性水凝胶,同时提高大分子的可及性和机械稳定性。ELASTicized 组织具有高拉伸性和可压缩性,可实现形状的可逆转变,并通过机械变薄将探针更快地递送至完整的组织标本中。这个通用平台可能有助于快速和规模化地对大规模生物系统(如人体器官)进行分子表型分析。