Rei Yagasaki

This paper develops a minimally invasive optical clearing medium for live mammalian tissue imaging, enabling structural and functional imaging with minimal impact on cellular properties.

This study identifies a mechanism for epithelial stratification analogous to a phase transition, driven by foam-geometric instability and nucleation-growth processes.

The paper introduces a new method combining USIM and AFM to measure stiffness and biomolecular distributions in 3D living tissue, revealing mechanical heterogeneity and the role of collagens.

This study develops a contractile organoid model from chicken embryonic hindgut to study rhythm coordination between interstitial cells of Cajal and smooth muscle cells.

This paper develops a new anti-c-Kit antibody to identify interstitial cells of Cajal in chicken embryos and demonstrates its utility in visualizing ICCs in different gut layers.