Modelling human embryoid body cell adhesion to a combinatorial library of polymer surfaces

Designing materials to control biology is an intense focus of biomaterials and regenerative medicine research. Discovering and designing materials with appropriate biological compatibility or active control of cells and tissues is being increasingly undertaken using high throughput synthesis and as...

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Main Authors: Epa, V.C., Yang, Jing, Mei, Ying, Hook, Andrew L., Langer, Robert, Anderson, Daniel G., Davies, Martyn C., Alexander, Morgan R., Winkler, David A.
Format: Article
Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2012
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30872/
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Summary:Designing materials to control biology is an intense focus of biomaterials and regenerative medicine research. Discovering and designing materials with appropriate biological compatibility or active control of cells and tissues is being increasingly undertaken using high throughput synthesis and assessment methods. We report a relatively simple but powerful machine-learning method of generating modelsthat link microscopic or molecular properties of polymers or other materials to their biological effects. We illustrate the potential of these methods by developing the first robust, predictive, quantitative, and purely computational models of adhesion of human embryonic stem cell embryoid bodies (hEB) to the surfaces of 496-member polymers.