The publishing streak continues! Excited to share our new article in Nature Reviews Materials (@natrevmats.nature.com) entitled "Engineering Complexity into Protein-based Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications"! Check it out here: 📜: doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🔓: rdcu.be/eRFDh

Check out our new paper entitled "Boolean Logic-based Controlled Release of Bioactive Proteins with Diversified Inputs", live in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! Growth factors, enzymes, nanobodies, and cytokines can now be "logically" delivered! 📜: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Medicine isn’t just about finding the right therapies — it’s also about getting them to where in the body they’re needed. These new smart proteins can autonomously read bodily cues to zero in on the exact locations of diseases. @coledeforest.bsky.social

Our latest collaborative paper with David Baker's lab is now live in Cell Biomaterials (@cp-cellbiomat.bsky.social, Cell Press)! Check out "Stimuli-triggered Formation of De Novo-designed Protein Biomaterials"! 🔓 : www.cell.com/cell-biomate...

Our new paper entitled “Boolean Logic-gated Protein Presentation through Autonomously Compiled Molecular Topology” is now live at Nature Chemical Biology (@natchembio.nature.com)! Check it out! 📜: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uwnews.uw.edu feature write-up: www.washington.edu/news/2025/10...

Cool science alert! A plasmid encoding a photodegradable hydrogel-forming protein called PhoCoil. Find it here: https://twp.ai/4iqKMK @coledeforest.bsky.social

New in @ScienceMagazine, we report that dilated cardiomyopathy can be alleviated by preventing hypocontractility-induced fibroblast expansion! The story is a fun combination of advanced in vivo and biomaterial-based in vitro models. Check it out! 📜 : doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Our new manuscript entitled "PhoCoil: A Photodegradable and Injectable Single-component Recombinant Protein Hydrogel for Minimally Invasive Delivery and Degradation" is now live at @ScienceAdvances! Check it out here (🔓): www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out our new paper entitled "Genetically Encoded Interpenetrating Polymer Networks as Injectable Biomaterials for Controlled Therapeutic Protein Delivery", appearing in ACS Biomat Science & Eng! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

For the 2nd year in a row, one of our lab members has been selected for the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. Huge congrats to Shivani Kottantharayil for her 2025 selection (and to Annabella Li for receiving the award last year)! UW press release is here: www.washington.edu/uaa/2025/04/...

In our latest manuscript, we demonstrate that grayscale control over local #biomaterial biochemistry and mechanics can be rapidly achieved across large constructs using an inexpensive (~$300) and commercially available LCD-based printer. Find it published in JBMR-A! doi.org/10.1002/jbm....

Happy Holidays from the DeForest Lab! What fun to celebrate the group’s 2024 achievements, especially in the baking sector. Our annual dessert bake-off competition was a tasty success!

The Anseth lab continues to pioneer many of the best and most versatile photoresponsive biomaterials known to our community. Congrats to @monicaohnsorg.bsky.social and Ella Hushka for summarizing the group's last 15 years of exciting efforts in their new paper!

Fun story from @matthewfainor.bsky.social on how next-gen recombinant proteins are being expressed in fruit flies, and what implications that could have for our lab-grown hydrogel biomaterials!

Professors often tell graduate students that “Your PhD is a #marathon, not a sprint”. Having now run the 2024 Seattle Marathon (many years after finishing a PhD), I now actually feel qualified to make such a statement. @uwmedicine.bsky.social

Introducing the Humanity Unlocking Biomaterials (HUB) national coordinating center. Opportunity to become involved with an incredible community, $100k research grants, core resources, and much more. Come join us! See more at our new website, here: www.humanityunlockingbiomaterials.org