The main limitation in engineering in vitro tissues is the lack of a sufficient blood vessel
system—the vascularization. In vivo almost all tissues are supplied by these endothelial cell …

Collagen type I is a widely used natural biomaterial that has found utility in a variety of
biological and medical applications. Its well-characterized structure and role as an …

Tissue engineering promises to be an effective strategy that can overcome the lacuna
existing in the current pharmacological and interventional therapies and heart …

Recapitulating the elegant structures formed during development is an extreme synthetic
and biological challenge. Great progress has been made in developing materials to support …

This review describes the prospects of applying modular assembly techniques and
strategies for fabrication of advanced tissue engineered cartilage constructs. Articular …

Recently, nanomaterials have been widely utilized in tissue engineering applications due to
their unique properties such as the high surface to volume ratio and diversity of morphology …

The limited ability to vascularize and perfuse thick, cell-laden tissue constructs has hindered
efforts to engineer complex tissues and organs, including liver, heart and kidney. The …

Heart failure after a myocardial infarction continues to be a leading killer in the Western
world. Currently, there are no therapies that effectively prevent or reverse the cardiac …

Abstract Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) still represents the “Number One Killer” worldwide
accounting for the death of numerous patients. However the capacity for self-regeneration of …

The field of tissue engineering has been growing in the recent years as more products have
made it to the market and as new uses for the engineered tissues have emerged, motivating …