Tissues articles within Nature

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• Article | 16 September 2020

  Homeostatic mini-intestines through scaffold-guided organoid morphogenesis

  Miniature gut tubes grown in vitro from mouse intestinal stem cells are perfusable, can be colonized with microorganisms and exhibit a similar arrangement and diversity of specialized cell types to intestines in vivo.

  • Mikhail Nikolaev
  • , Olga Mitrofanova
  •  & Matthias P. Lutolf

• Article | 01 July 2020

  Chemical gradients in human enamel crystallites

  Hydroxylapatite crystallites in human dental enamel show gradients in chemical composition, with a layer of magnesium enrichment on each side of a core rich in sodium, fluoride and carbonate ions.

  • Karen A. DeRocher
  • , Paul J. M. Smeets
  •  & Derk Joester

• Letter | 28 August 2019

  Emergence of tissue-like mechanics from fibrous networks confined by close-packed cells

  Tissue rheology emerges from the interplay between fibrous networks and cell inclusions, and the mechanical properties of tissues are modulated by restricting the relaxation modes of fibres close to volume-conserving cells.

  • Anne S. G. van Oosten
  • , Xingyu Chen
  •  & Paul A. Janmey

• Letter | 16 November 2016

  Designer matrices for intestinal stem cell and organoid culture

  The authors have designed modular synthetic hydrogel networks for mouse and human intestinal stem cell cultures that support intestinal organoid formation.

  • Nikolce Gjorevski
  • , Norman Sachs
  •  & Matthias P. Lutolf