Self-feeding living materials enabled by cell responsive glycogen nanoparticles as metabolic batteries
Melvin Gurian, Niels G. A. Willemen, Isa Robin Porsul, Nicole Joy Bassous, Jarno Hiemstra, Yu Na, Debby Gawlitta, Su Ryon Shin, Jeroen Leijten
This paper introduces glycogen-based nutritional nanoparticles as metabolic batteries to support long-term survival of human mesenchymal stromal cells under extreme metabolic stress and enables scalable living materials.
Advanced Materials · Sep 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering