{"title":"Stiffness matters: A soft bone marrow organoid rejuvenates hematopoietic stem cells","authors":"Xiaoying Zhang, Rui Yue","doi":"10.1016/j.mbm.2023.100009","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A recent study published in <em>Cell Stem Cell</em> [1] showed that matrix stiffness critically regulates hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche, and successfully engineered a soft bone marrow (BM) organoid to maintain and rejuvenate HSCs <em>ex vivo</em>. In addition, BM stiffening was also identified as a novel aging hallmark of the hematopoietic system. Together, these important findings implicate matrix stiffness as a fundamental biomechanical factor governing cell fate determination and aging of tissue-specific stem cells.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100900,"journal":{"name":"Mechanobiology in Medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"Article 100009"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mechanobiology in Medicine","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949907023000098","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A recent study published in Cell Stem Cell [1] showed that matrix stiffness critically regulates hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) niche, and successfully engineered a soft bone marrow (BM) organoid to maintain and rejuvenate HSCs ex vivo. In addition, BM stiffening was also identified as a novel aging hallmark of the hematopoietic system. Together, these important findings implicate matrix stiffness as a fundamental biomechanical factor governing cell fate determination and aging of tissue-specific stem cells.