Advances in pluripotent stem cells: history, mechanisms, technologies, and applications

G Liu, BT David, M Trawczynski, RG Fessler - Stem cell reviews and …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past 20 years, and particularly in the last decade, significant developmental
milestones have driven basic, translational, and clinical advances in the field of stem cell …

Functional and biomimetic materials for engineering of the three-dimensional cell microenvironment

G Huang, F Li, X Zhao, Y Ma, Y Li, M Lin, G Jin… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The cell microenvironment has emerged as a key determinant of cell behavior and function
in development, physiology, and pathophysiology. The extracellular matrix (ECM) within the …

Bioinspired engineering of honeycomb structure–Using nature to inspire human innovation

Q Zhang, X Yang, P Li, G Huang, S Feng… - Progress in Materials …, 2015 - Elsevier
Honeycomb structures, inspired from bee honeycombs, had found widespread applications
in various fields, including architecture, transportation, mechanical engineering, chemical …

[HTML][HTML] Neural tissue engineering with structured hydrogels in CNS models and therapies

J George, CC Hsu, LTB Nguyen, H Ye, Z Cui - Biotechnology advances, 2020 - Elsevier
The development of techniques to create and use multiphase microstructured hydrogels
(granular hydrogels or microgels) has enabled the generation of cultures with more …

Biomimetic micro/nano structures for biomedical applications

T Xiang, J Hou, H Xie, X Liu, T Gong, S Zhou - Nano Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Cell behaviors are influenced by the surrounding dynamic microenvironment where the
extracellular matrix (ECM) composed of different micro/nano-structures plays a key role …

Scaffold strategies for modulating immune microenvironment during bone regeneration

J He, G Chen, M Liu, Z Xu, H Chen, L Yang… - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Implanted bone scaffolds often fail to successfully integrate with the host tissue because they
do not elicit a favorable immune reaction. Properties of bone scaffold not only provide …

A review on the progress of polymer nanostructures with modulated morphologies and properties, using nanoporous AAO templates

C Mijangos, R Hernández, J Martin - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Polymers with the same chemical composition can provide different properties by reducing
the dimension or simply by altering their nanostructure. The recent literature reports …

Hydrogels for large-scale expansion of stem cells

S Yin, Y Cao - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Stem cells demonstrate considerable promise for various preclinical and clinical
applications, including drug screening, disease treatments, and regenerative medicine …

Assessing glucose and oxygen diffusion in hydrogels for the rational design of 3D stem cell scaffolds in regenerative medicine

L Figueiredo, R Pace, C D'arros… - Journal of tissue …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels are attractive biomaterials for replicating cellular microenvironments, but attention
needs to be given to hydrogels diffusion properties. A large body of literature shows the …

Macromolecular crowding meets oxygen tension in human mesenchymal stem cell culture - A step closer to physiologically relevant in vitro organogenesis

D Cigognini, D Gaspar, P Kumar, A Satyam… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Modular tissue engineering is based on the cells' innate ability to create bottom-up
supramolecular assemblies with efficiency and efficacy still unmatched by man-made …