New multifunctional, degradable, polymeric biomaterial systems would provide versatile
platforms to address cell and tissue needs in both in vitro and in vivo environments. While …

Hyaluronic acid (HA)-based hydrogels have been widely used as cell culture substrates,
adhesives and fillers for clinical therapeutics, and drug delivery vehicles, with promising …

Natural organisms produce a diverse range of nano-, micro-and macroscale structures as
well as exquisitely complex hierarchically organized functional materials in an energy …

One strategy for dealing with bone defects is replicating and reconstructing artificial bone for
bone tissue engineering (BTE) application, known as the scaffold. Bone consists of an …

Organ-specific activity is directly dependent on the functional organization of its fundamental
building blocks including the resident/infiltrating cell populations and tissue-specific ECM …

3D bioprinting, where cells, hydrogels and structural polymers can be printed layer by layer
into complex designs, holds great promise for advances in medicine and the biomedical …

Several years ago, the role and durability of elastin in the native extracellular matrix (ECM)
of tissues subjected to repetitive deformations sparked interest in this unique behavior for …

Hydrogels are having potential applications in tissue engineering for regenerating lost
tissues either by acting as a scaffold for intrinsic cell growth or by acting as a reservoir to …

Introduction: Peyronie's disease (PD) is characterised by fibrosis in the penile tunica
albuginea (TA) leading to pain, curvature, and erectile dysfunction, with myofibroblasts …

The expansion of cellular functions via novel modular building blocks, namely unnatural
amino acids, their site-selective genetically encoded cotranslational incorporation into …