Tissue engineering has emerged as a powerful method to treat the loss of tissues and
organs in the past several decades. Many commercial products based on tissue engineering …

The synergism of stem cell biology and biomaterial technology promises to have a profound
impact on stem-cell-based clinical applications for tissue regeneration. Biomaterials …

Biomaterials are key components in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
applications, with the intended purpose of reducing the burden of disease and enhancing …

Natural polymeric scaffolds can be used for tissue engineering applications such as cell
delivery and cell-free supporting of native tissues. This is because of their desirable …

The history of biomaterials dates back to the mists of time: human beings had always used
exogenous materials to facilitate wound healing and try to restore damaged tissues and …

Naturally-derived biomaterials have been used for decades in multiple regenerative
medicine applications. From the simplest cell microcarriers made of collagen or alginate, to …

The ability to regenerate damaged tissue is one of the great challenges in biomaterials and
medicine. Successful treatments will require advances in areas ranging from basic cell …

One goal of tissue engineering is to replace lost or compromised tissue function, and an
approach to this is to control the interplay between materials (scaffolds), cells and growth …

The most important advances in the field of biomaterials over the past few years have been
in bioactive biomaterials. Materials have been developed to incorporate bioactivity through …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of the natural origin polymers that
are commercially available or currently being studied in different laboratories for tissue …