Adult stem cells are fundamental to maintain tissue homeostasis, growth, and regeneration.
They reside in specialized environments called niches. Following activating signals, they …

The field of microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip technology aims to improve and extend the
possibilities of bioassays, cell biology and biomedical research based on the idea of …

Fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs) play a crucial role in skeletal muscle regeneration, as
they generate a favorable niche that allows satellite cells to perform efficient muscle …

Bottom-up tissue engineering technologies address two of the main limitations of top-down
tissue engineering approaches: the control of mass transfer and the fabrication of a …

It is increasingly recognized that material surface topography is able to evoke specific
cellular responses, endowing materials with instructive properties that were formerly …

Normal skeletal muscle functions are affected following trauma, chronic diseases, inherited
neuromuscular disorders, aging, and cachexia, hampering the daily activities and quality of …

Stem cells are known to differentiate in response to the chemical and mechanical properties
of the substrates on which they are cultured. Thus, supramolecular biomaterials with tunable …

Extracellular matrix can influence stem cell choices, such as self‐renewal, quiescence,
migration, proliferation, phenotype maintenance, differentiation, or apoptosis. Three aspects …

Molecular self-assembly is a multi-disciplinary field of research, with potential chemical and
biological applications. One of the main driving forces of self-assembly is molecular …

Fabrication of cellular constructs with spatial control of cell location (±5 µm) is essential to
the advancement of a wide range of applications including tissue engineering, stem cell and …